Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] i [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 2 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 3 | Erm and come back to you , perhaps in a week 's time and you talk me through those recommendations . |
| 4 | She is in the early stages of pregnancy , her belly gently swelling inside her pink dress , and she tells me with obvious delight that she is expecting a summer bambino . |
| 5 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 6 | During my stay in her country we were always together , and she saved me from many dangerous situations . |
| 7 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 8 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 9 | ‘ And they reccommend me to other people . |
| 10 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 11 | I played his game and he rewarded me with encouraging remarks about my cancer-free future . |
| 12 | ‘ There was one teacher , Mr Richardson , and he encouraged me in all the sports I did , really . |
| 13 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 14 | And it worried me to that extent that I almost went without your okay and rang up Terry and said , please fix those blinds , because we have got blinds which cost almost two hundred pounds or something and or a hundred and nineteen pounds , and it seems they ca n't fix them . |
| 15 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 16 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |