Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] and [det] " in BNC.

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1 I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek .
2 You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ?
3 I mean that 's how I was , I mean and that 's
4 and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic
5 Where I lived and that ?
6 going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades
7 ‘ The area is far more rugged and wild than I expected and some of the ridge walking has been spectacular ’ Paul told us from Italy .
8 It was all I hate and all I fear .
9 Minor conflicts occur with the couple trying to pacify her , this continues up to a black moment when the house relents and saves them and then I say and this is important I think when you write for a radio , I have marked one paragraph with red brackets .
10 Of what I want and that .
11 She writes the words : arresting images ( lives that go in circles ‘ like a pigeon on a tyre ’ ) , moments of disturbing lucidity amid inscrutable dream-imagery ( ‘ give me what I want/ And all I can think about is losing it ’ ; ‘ why ca n't you do to my insights/What you do to my insides ? ’ ;
12 and I 've got clumps of of snowdrops where I 'd and some where I did n't know even know I had snowdrops and
13 I 'll erm , I 'll venture and , and my parents said yes , that would be alright and so er so I came along and erm of course , it happened that he was in the he was in the forge talking to Hector on the first evening I came and that was how we met .
14 There was more attacking when I played and more chances .
15 ‘ I figure if I do n't organise it somebody else will organise it after I die and that 'll be like , it wo n't be right .
16 The other thing is my contribution to the new album is limited , Jake had most of the songs finished before I arrived and all I did was go in and lay down the bass tracks .
17 I nodded and that was it .
18 You know when I curtsied and all my skirt came up and you could see my knickers .
19 Er the only difference between the situation now and the situation when I was a teacher is that there are a lot of Christians in this room per square metre than there would have been in a school where I taught and that applies to where I work now er because er the number of Christians who are around me in in the workplace are actually even smaller I guess and er that may be something that er you will need to recognise is an unusual feature of your school life and that er as you leave school so you 're going to go into very different environments where people behave very differently .
20 There 's only one tune that I know and that was made in honour of my brother .
21 unfortunately and I know and that 's how much complicated bit
22 The ground of my being , the cornerstone of my art , is here on Møn , pre-dating the destruction of what I loved and those whom I loved .
23 My Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm , I submitted and this is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , in the British Rail Board both the act and the central fund byelaw should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference , unless strong evidence of invalidity is , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the
24 I believe and this is why I 'm involved with I believe that you get the best of both worlds here .
25 Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed .
26 I dialled and this time decided to try a little subterfuge .
27 ‘ And I think they realise how I feel and this has broken the ice . ’
28 I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll ,
29 I wrote all I knew and all that people at Open Houses , Playgroup and Nursery knew , and it all fitted nicely on a double page .
30 I , I 'm interested in the cameras which I use and that 's it .
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