Example sentences of "[det] [subord] i [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Faringdon 's , the singers stood on chairs but I do not usually do this if I sing the song with children . |
| 2 | But , and I did n't know this until I read the book , if you stand next to something that is triangular shaped , like , say , a triangle , it will give you a great feeling of harmony , and you wo n't give a f— about not having a place to live . ’ |
| 3 | I only did this because I know the outlet where I purchased the fish from has its own excellent quarantine facilities and I have used this shop for over 10 years and have never had any trouble with fish purchased from there . |
| 4 | I say this because I have the feeling that you no longer wish to join your cousins in Wisconsin . |
| 5 | Ian , I wish we could go on talking endlessly about this because I find the subject quite fascinating and we have n't really talked about the details of your research . |
| 6 | ‘ I had some before I left the hotel . |
| 7 | I congratulate the Clerks on having corrected this before I raised the matter . |
| 8 | Yes , but , the the main part of this as I understand the drawing , you 'll have to ask Mr when he comes , but the main part of , of the square , which would n't be the third which is done in the first phase according to the phase that they 're currently proposing . |
| 9 | I like Mrs Tamm 's silence almost as much as I like the impersonality of my room . |
| 10 | Well I think much as I welcome the university proceeding down the road that it is , erm I have a very , very strong feeling that change is going to come from the bottom up , and I think that it 'll come from the bottom up in those colleges , like New College , who have got an increasingly large number of women fellows who feel that , you know , there 's safety in numbers and we can start to do something about it . |
| 11 | For as much as I reject the demo mentality , I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties . |
| 12 | He wants me to look very ordinary , very much as I did the day I trespassed . |
| 13 | Oh it 's doing it again it 's doing it again , dear oh yes , doing it again erm I had the plumber up to look at that cos I thought the plumbing was all wrong and he said no he said the plumbing is wrong the waste pipe of the en suite shower and the bath are connected , and they should n't be they should be separate , but they had been connected and that is bad but no , he said , what 's happening is quite simple , he said erm the people using the en suite ca n't control the water it 's going out he said the curtain does n't fit flush against the wall , because the wall leans , you know |
| 14 | They these when I remember the garage , it was a series of er lock up garages in the front , with a central one opening right through to the back . |
| 15 | Imran , 39 , said he was not very optimistic at the moment because the injury ‘ has not improved at all since I played the World Cup final ’ . |
| 16 | She is frightened of some noises — like the vacuum cleaner — but does n't bother at all when I use the lawnmower or hedge-cutter . |
| 17 | Erm , I do not personally like that because I like the discipline of writing things out again for reasons which I will explain in boring detail in a while . |
| 18 | Maybe but it is difficult when people do that because I mean the majority of us are going up and down and you get this one that 's going across and |
| 19 | Eat those while I do the bacon . |
| 20 | Can I leave you to erm have a browse at that while I measure the door ? |
| 21 | You can do that while I put the washing out . |
| 22 | ‘ It did n't seem to look like that when I had the fitting . ’ |
| 23 | That when I see the man who armoured stood |
| 24 | Those who now come to read Russian at Nottingham do so in a world much changed from that when I entered the Department twenty years ago . |