Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pers pn] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should also have recognised I was being unrealistic and I think I did , ’ Vitor went on . |
| 2 | One that I thought wrong but I think I 've got it right . |
| 3 | erm you know like for instance I mean erm I mean I suppose I feel British but I mean I do n't feel I have any very strong identification with with other British people because there are so many other people in the world speak English and erm often people from other countries who in many ways you identify with them more . |
| 4 | He 's very , very clever and he teaches me sums and helps me with my homework . |
| 5 | ‘ Dad 's very , very clever and he teaches me sums ’ |
| 6 | The policeman is civil and he lets me go , commenting on my eyesore of a car , warning me to get my tail-light repaired . |
| 7 | It 's sad but I mean I think miles away you sort of not quite so bad , traumatic . |
| 8 | She sort of flinches but I dab real soft and she lets me finish . |
| 9 | It 's long and shiny and it takes me ages to do it . |
| 10 | I should have been discharged earlier but I had developed a cold and they insisted I stay until it had completely cleared up . |
| 11 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |
| 12 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 13 | sure that 's right but I mean I think the beginners are the people coming in new to the bis |
| 14 | I erm am obviously feeling guilty cos I 'm not feeling guilty but it makes me cough a bit to go to the post office every week and get vastly more disabl disability er invalidity benefit than he gets , vastly more . |
| 15 | It 's terrible but I find I do exactly the same with my children now : they come in from school and everything is dropped and I say ‘ pick them up ’ and I try to stop nagging them because I remember how much I hated it . |
| 16 | I just had to say that is beautiful and I wish I had more words to describe it , but I have n't yet . |
| 17 | The Scots face Italy at Ibrox on Wednesday , and Roxburgh said : ‘ The backbone of the team is very important and I believe I have players of very high quality who will form the spine of our side on Wednesday . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 19 | But then eventually the surroundings grew unrecognizable and I knew I had gone beyond all previous boundaries . |
| 20 | ‘ Some people think I am crazy but I thought I had better do it now while I have the chance . ’ |
| 21 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 22 | ‘ I might not be the youngest candidate but I 'm the most experienced and I think I have the most energy , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Ann Jefferson , 26 , marketing executive ( left ) : ‘ I 'm naturally blonde but I think I look better as a brunette — I 'm absolutely stunned . |
| 24 | And every weekend really there 's a social organized and I mean I think although packing the food parcels on a Saturday is in a sense well you know if we take the food thing nobody knew really . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I 'm not ready and I wish I had n't come , if you really want to know . |
| 26 | Yeah cos he realise I mean , he often says oh well , you know , she made me turn against my family and be horrible and he says I have n't had time , he says I realise how wrong I was . |
| 27 | Oh no I have n't been that that bad but I reckon I 've |
| 28 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 29 | ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring shopping for clothes really is . |
| 30 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |