Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've found it difficult to work , have n't made any friends and I am dreading next year . |
2 | People going and collecting and I 'm hoping first prize winner 's there . |
3 | Sorry , that was , I 'm sorry , you 've spo I 'm sorry you 've spoken , I 'm just commenting will you be quiet please , I 'm taking next speaker . |
4 | One with wounds to his leg , I 'm administering first aid ’ |
5 | This this is what I 'm saying last time that if you 'll work through it , understand it , Oh yeah I can do that , |
6 | Now I 'm having second thoughts . |
7 | Not surprisingly I 'm having second thoughts — ’ |
8 | Now then , I like the new look — ’ Sarella had had her hair cropped ‘ — and was thinking of putting you in for the ingénue , but I 'm having second thoughts . ’ |
9 | I 'm going next door . |
10 | Yeah because I 'm doing second year abnormal from two til three so you might be able to catch me at three |
11 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
12 | I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast . |
13 | My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’ |
14 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
15 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
16 | I was trying last year to try to see if I could get a erm an Indian , you know when we sort of do looking at Asia |
17 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
18 | ‘ I was approached last year by Lawrence Barnett [ chairman ] to sort things out . |
19 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
20 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
21 | I kept in touch after that , obviously , and continued to badger him and send him new material until I was signed last August . |
22 | I was wondering last night if it might be the hand of fate . |
23 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
24 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
25 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
26 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
27 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
28 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
29 | Other winners in the awards ceremony seen as a pointer to the Hollywood Oscars which are announced next week included Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins . |
30 | A STRATHCLYDE region official has ‘ unreservedly apologised ’ for remarks linking genetics and the intelligence of Asian and black children which were condemned last week by community leaders . |