Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | ‘ Or I have supreme confidence in myself that she will return to me , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 3 | Or I have some vodka in the fridge . |
| 4 | ‘ As you well know , Polly , neither Lord Byron nor I have any sense of humour , being British , ’ said Shelley . |
| 5 | Neither you nor I have any claim on this house , and you know it . |
| 6 | And I get these pains in my stomach . |
| 7 | You must be delighted with your progress , and I hope this feeling of wellbeing will encourage you to continue with the programme . |
| 8 | And I remember one game in particular it always stuck in me mind . |
| 9 | And I remember this time in Winners when he , he picked them up and looked at them and said I do n't think these are the right ones for my car and that , that 's why I thought |
| 10 | As Mr Charles , our chief male nurse and I passed each other on our way to and from the admission ward and our offices we had first one and then another sorry tale to tell . |
| 11 | ‘ John and I like different sorts of holidays , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Loud bangs started upstairs and I imagined all kinds of things were happening . |
| 13 | I was the criminal , in and out of prison all my life , and I got fourteen years on the prison-ship . |
| 14 | I have to record loads of tapes , no no not just these ones and I got other ones at home , I 've got have a bath , I 've got clean up my bedroom and you know . |
| 15 | I I saw it somewhere and I got lost track of it . |
| 16 | and I got some fruit up the market on Friday . |
| 17 | pullover and I got those socks for Tony . |
| 18 | I said I 'll ha take one pair and er the lady 's called Irene , she 's had the shop for years and years mum always gets and I got those stockings for you |
| 19 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 20 | Oh yeah and I mean that sort of size |
| 21 | Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go . |
| 22 | So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals . |
| 23 | And I heard one woman in the audience say , ‘ Look , her hair pins have just fallen out . ’ |
| 24 | Whatever the objective truth of this assertion , it could have been formulated on purpose to infuriate me , and I denied both halves of it . |
| 25 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I think , and I use that word in its broadest sense , I think you should jump on her . |
| 27 | But I do n't like it here , and I 've good reason for going . |
| 28 | Well we never use them and I 've another reason for wanting rid of them . |
| 29 | I 'm very much afraid one ca n't last the night , and I 've ugly doubts about another . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July . |