Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] and i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know I asked you to commit yourself , how much do you think it 's worth for me to do all this kind of work and he 's , you 're confused because you think I 'm actually talking about money and I take the weight off your shoulders by saying no it 's not actually money , it 's in the form of two or three names , people open minded like yourself , who I can sit down and discuss the whole situation with |
| 2 | ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’ |
| 3 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 4 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 5 | Mr Temple said O'Shea later made a series of ‘ bizarre ’ comments , including that ‘ after I died on the Cross my soul was sold , I believe , for a lot of money and I served the devil in Hell . |
| 6 | The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down . |
| 7 | Long fingering of manuscript and I thought the fingering . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister , the Minister of State and I met the leaders of the four main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland on 11 February . |
| 9 | Nastiest — Simon William 's Single Of The Week for the ‘ Frozen ’ EP — ‘ Curve stink of fabrication , reek of formularisation and I resent the ‘ Frozen ’ EP being f—ing brilliant . ’ |
| 10 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 11 | We have overhauled the plans in some of the companies , we 've considered changes that should be done to erm make them more , actually more cost effective for the employee , there 's an element of shifting the cost to the employee while still providing them with coverage and I think the other thing is that erm given the the redundancies that have gone on in Camco and other parts of the group and cost cutting generally , it 's very difficult at this stage to predict you have all sorts of things like actuarial assumptions erm cost inflation of medical costs . |
| 12 | She does n't use the top one it 's jammed with paint and I loosened the saddle on the other when I was pretending to have a piss . |
| 13 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend agree that in constituencies such as mine in the south-east there are problems in providing houses for those most in need and I welcome the additional figures that he has announced for housing associations ? |
| 15 | There 's no need to worry — I 'd not live there for all the gold in Christendom and I told the lady Anne as much ! |
| 16 | It is impossible in these Coronation days to judge how long it will take to get from place to place and I asked the taxi-driver not to be too early . |
| 17 | The disappointment in the Athens camp has bordered on bitterness and I asked the mayor of Atlanta , Maynard Jackson for his reaction to the words of one Athens delegate who described the Atlanta decision as a win for Coca Cola and a loss for the Olympic ideal . |
| 18 | Yeah you like , you , he likes the one that without sugar and I like the one with sugar |
| 19 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 20 | At this time I was on holiday and I spent the next three days redecorating my sitting room ( a boring task , but necessary ) while waiting for the G4 to harden . |
| 21 | However , there is always room for improvement and I think the public has little idea of the enormous problems that confront us , all of us , as the parents of these children in care . |
| 22 | I myself had a wonderful childhood playing with friends at home and I want the same for him . ’ |
| 23 | She is a Rhodesian Ridgeback by breed and I resist the urgings of trendy ideologues who would rename these dogs which were used for lion hunting in East Africa . |