Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that , that bloke has got , she said if that was me I 'd write to the Chief Constable about it |
| 2 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
| 3 | Give it to me , Lori , or so help me I will go to the police and let you stew in your own juice . ’ |
| 4 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 5 | I told him about Hirondelle and how Deacon Billingsley had lied about the yacht 's fate , and I confessed that though there was nothing I could do about a corrupt policeman , nor about what I strongly suspected had been the murder of a yacht 's crew , I was still curious about the island . |
| 6 | Lying about my family 's social status came easily enough , but there was nothing I could do about the more visible signs of poverty . |
| 7 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about the accident . |
| 8 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 9 | Nothing I can add to the statement I 've already — ’ |
| 10 | While still in London I would wake in the night to find the bed devoid of Nigel , whom I would find in the kitchen , drinking tea and pacing the floor . |
| 11 | Next there is a group of colleagues whom I shall describe as the ‘ patriots ’ , who through love of country and a proper belief in its democratic institutions do not accept that the time has come to deny our nationality . |
| 12 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
| 13 | I was so concerned that I also really did n't trust other people or stupid books to explain to me whereas usually , in most things I do , if I do n't understand them I 'll go to the library and get books and read about it and find out . |
| 14 | I I I 'll go on no further than that . |
| 15 | I never buy it of fortnightly so I I 'll go to the shop and I 'll say , Right , probably seven tins of beans , seven tins of peas , er you know a few tins a few beans er tins of spaghetti and things like that you know , bits and bobs , but I 'll still get a joint for me Sundays . |
| 16 | I I I 'd say with the , with the revamped exam you 're not likely , you 're not likely to get a question like that . |
| 17 | I I can think of a I can think of a few th of them who are going to be completely incomprehensible to you . |
| 18 | Yes I I can remember as a child my grandmother 's erm , family all lived in the east end and I can remember that the you know on the occasions that they used to come down and see us there was always tins of fruit and all sorts of |
| 19 | I I will talk about the fund as I found it in my capacity as a very recent chairman . |
| 20 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 21 | Central News Video I Activity Book 1 Central News Video II Activity Book 2 which I shall deliver to the Press in accordance with the letter agreement . |
| 22 | The problem is not length as such but the infrequency and brevity of meetings at which the scientific work is conducted , a point to which I shall return towards the end of this paper . |
| 23 | This is a point to which I shall return in the concluding chapter . |
| 24 | It is because we wish to strengthen the Government 's hand against a fairly well organised industry which seeks universal general increases that we make a series of recommendations in the report , to which I shall come in a moment . |
| 25 | There are four in particular that have significant educational implications : ( 1 ) the emphasis on individualisation , ( 2 ) the encouragement of the ‘ exercise ’ disposition or mode of behaviour , ( 3 ) the widening of activities to be embraced by drama , and ( 4 ) the importance of intuition , which I shall discuss under the section heading ‘ Dorothy Heathcote ’ . |
| 26 | Anyway , if the right hon. Gentleman had remained in the Chamber , he would have realised that much of what he said was total nonsense , for reasons to which I shall turn in a moment . |
| 27 | The survivors are shown in Figure 5.2 ( along with certain isotopes of H , C and N to which I shall turn in the next section ) . |
| 28 | But the answer to these fundamental questions must follow a review of the law as understood at present , which I would express in the following propositions . |
| 29 | Certainly , field research of this kind is not something which I would recommend for the inexperienced . |
| 30 | Every lunch time , I would trot off with my large plastic box , and return an hour later with a container of milk which I would put in the office fridge . |