Example sentences of "i [verb] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Shall I be mother and pour or d' you want me to disappear while you two talk Jockey Club business . ’ |
| 2 | I mean if its any thing like a golf magazine , every week , every month |
| 3 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 4 | There was about a grand in the old account — my dad 's money came by standing order — but I would n't use it , and what I regarded as my own finances were judging from the tone of the bank 's increasingly frequent letters somewhere in the deep infrared and in serious danger of vanishing from the electromagnetic spectrum altogether . |
| 5 | He said I pays my poll tax he says and I am paying out of my savings he said now what the heck will I do when my bloody savings is gone . |
| 6 | I watched as my dear man made his way across the tarmac to the small Doha airport . |
| 7 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 8 | I doubt whether my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury ( Mr. Key ) would be amused by that . |
| 9 | I doubt if your missing friend will be there , however . ’ |
| 10 | It ca n't be anything else , formal savings is not on and I think when you small items I was rather distressed by some of them . |
| 11 | I have written to both the Prime Minister and the Sports Minister because I wonder if my civil liberties have been infringed . |
| 12 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 13 | I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’ |
| 14 | I wondered if our own troops in distant countries behaved in this way . |