Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 2 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 3 | All my days and hope I finish it here . |
| 4 | An initially kind-voiced woman took down my details and advised me to ring Chicago . |
| 5 | At least I had the money , painfully scraped together with a view to eventually taking a PGCE-TEFL course to upgrade my qualifications and enable me to escape from Clive 's power . |
| 6 | Her eyes closed , she turned her face away , released her hold on my cheekbones and let me go on into the hall . |
| 7 | Then a stitch stabbed my ribs and forced me to walk the next few yards . |
| 8 | Sister Margaret is always nagging me about my earrings and telling me to take them off , but I 'm not going to . |
| 9 | Let me tell you , when those dubbin-lickers at Whaddon go on their knees and beg me to bring my United first team squad to ‘ The Tip ’ to put a few quid in their ailing coffers , I shall take great delight in treading on Ken Mentle 's fingers , provided he survives last week 's heart attack , and raising two toes in a defiant ‘ get lost ’ gesture . |
| 10 | And she got hold of me in her arms and carried me kicking and screaming into the school . |
| 11 | And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ? |
| 12 | Raised his cap with a pretty gesture , blushed to his eyes and asked me to come and see his work . ’ |
| 13 | falling down his trousers and make me laugh and shout , I 'll always feel so happy when the comes about ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , the funny circus clown |
| 14 | If there 's anything more ridiculous than a periwigged Pooh-Bah in his frills and furbelows I 've yet to see it . |
| 15 | When he saw Mrs Goreng disembarking from her jeep , he at once made himself scarce , retiring through the back of the shop to his living-quarters and instructing me to deal with this dissatisfied , difficult , and , in all likelihood , dangerous customer . |
| 16 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 17 | I enclose the sheet of classes in Scotland as last known — could you please check the details of all your classes and let me know as soon as possible if there are any alterations or additional details available . |
| 18 | Go and pack your things and leave me to go and book your seats . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose you 'll ring for your servants and have me thrown out ? ’ |