Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had opened my locked drawer where I keep my private papers , but I 'm not going to mention that . |
| 2 | ‘ On Lee Beach there 's a safe anchorage where I keep my old fishing boat , ’ said her host . |
| 3 | Because what I really want , after all , is to give them a true belief , and I know very well that , although I want my own beliefs to be true ( because that 's what makes them useful ) , we can all make mistakes . |
| 4 | As a result , I have never been less tempted to support an Opposition motion , although I assure my hon. Friend who is the Whip on duty that I am never tempted in that direction . |
| 5 | The monitoring process , until eventually I work out that I get my two sales . |
| 6 | That I break his miserable china duck . |
| 7 | It is with some trepidation that I mention our feathered friends — LARUS CANUS — the common gull . |
| 8 | The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance . |
| 9 | It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle . |
| 10 | And these words , that I command thee this day , shall be upon thy heart ; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou walkest by the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou riseth up . |
| 11 | It is as a stranger that I greet my own self , and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time . |
| 12 | Joan while I remember in my car I 've got some things that I want your professional advice about . |
| 13 | They also insisted that I sue their front door — and not my own — so that people had to go through their gallery . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you prefer that I do what some man should have done years ago ? |
| 15 | The right hon. Gentleman said : ’ That is a firm commitment , costed and clear that I pledge our Labour Government will carry out . ’ |
| 16 | He rubbed at his jaw and the back of his neck with the towel and said , ‘ I 'm not drunk , I was dog-tired , not that I owe you any explanation . |
| 17 | His correspondent had lately left the academic world for military service ; and with his own bookish situation , so detrimental to " independent thought " , Nietzsche contrasted and , in part , commended his friend 's active life : " … not that I applaud your present profession as such , bud only insofar as it is the negation of your previous life … |
| 18 | These jumpers dry in no time , no pressing is required and the fabric is so light and cosy that I wear them all year round ! |
| 19 | It is therefore not only with a sense of excitement that I approach my new responsibilities , but also with a keen awareness of the importance of IT to industry , to the service sector , to research and to the strength and wellbeing of the UK as a whole . |
| 20 | When I finally accepted that I create my own reality , I was excited but scared . |
| 21 | Then I reminded myself that I create my own reality ! |
| 22 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language … |
| 23 | It tasted far worse than I imagine my four-day-old socks would — a memorable moment remembered for the wrong reason , not least for the expression of anguish on Pete 's face as the brew hit his tonsils . |
| 24 | She only sees her husband once a year because he works in Outer Mongolia , so I feel my three month 's absence from home is not as bad as it might be . |
| 25 | I 'm working with ideas , still writing songs , so I have my personal input from that , plus I 'm always interested in the input and suggestions I get from the letters I receive from all over the world . |
| 26 | And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it . |
| 27 | ‘ One word of this and I tell your local rags where you learnt your craft . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I hear a song and I tell my musical director what tempo I want it in , and how it 's going to end . |
| 29 | And I tell you another thing I noticed , I cut through the car park in the lane behind Shirley 's one day this week , I went through and and the back door of the old police station 's open . |
| 30 | Promotion is the priority and I hope our missing fans will see this as a positive move in the right direction . ’ |