Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [pron] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says |
| 2 | I told the guard at the reception desk in the dark , grim entrance why I had come and he told me to wait . |
| 3 | Lisabeth 's eyes clouded and I knew I 'd done enough . |
| 4 | With the onset in the later stages of unmistakable labour pains in my lower abdomen all doubts were resolved and I knew I had to do something about it . |
| 5 | yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the |
| 6 | So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening |
| 7 | Our friendship developed and she invited me to write a Fount book . |
| 8 | Erm I said well yeah he said every day you been saying er I 've been asking you what appointments have you got and I said I 've got two this afternoon and two tomorrow morning . |
| 9 | And there 's a lady there , and er , got a caravan and her husband had died and she wanted me to swap caravans , her 's was actually a better condition caravan than mine |
| 10 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 11 | You know how much have I left and what do I do now . |
| 12 | Well she smokes Lambert and Butlers and as I say she had one fag left and she said I have to keep that for Norm . |
| 13 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 14 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 15 | But he finds out all these things but he does n't tell you and you keep getting killed and you think I wonder if I could do it |