Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | been a lot of crucial areas this afternoon Alan but I for me I think by and large Leicester have always had the edge in midfield . |
| 2 | ‘ Hey , there 's nothing I like better than a slow cruise off the Spanish Main , a cool drink , and a little hot music . |
| 3 | ‘ Duw , there 's nothing I like better than to work on my own ideas . ’ |
| 4 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 5 | I was telephoned by the late Lord Plunket , Her Majesty 's Equerry , a man of exceptional charm whom I knew well and liked , who arranged the appointment and said diffidently , ‘ I hope you do not mind wearing a morning coat . ’ |
| 6 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 7 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |
| 8 | It 's a question of how you dance round them I suspect rather than the actual pole . |
| 9 | up and running as it were and er I shall be I I know already that some of these figures are inaccurate |
| 10 | I I tripped up and fell down at the side . |
| 11 | But I I wrote in and I was asked to see Mr . |
| 12 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 13 | I I meant yesterday but you see , cos you gave me a bag yesterday and I 've meant to bring it today , I forgot it . |
| 14 | I , I , I I turn around and |
| 15 | Karl , and I for one decided it was too big for me so I I went round and of course I did n't . |
| 16 | Er , but I I think actually that the nineteen weeks er in June re is largely caused of er some clearing out of cupboards on the part of Jill , prior to her maternity leave . |
| 17 | and my sweat shirts and jumpers I I fold up and they 're all in together . |
| 18 | all I I sat down and visualized and then did it . |
| 19 | Yes er I I agree wholeheartedly because I can imagine if this ended up in Selby what might be proposed under this umbrella . |
| 20 | ‘ I would ask however that the next time you attempt plagiarize said that you take the opportunity of confirming your remarks to someone you know rather than one you purport to . ’ |
| 21 | I we went out and we got er erm a suit so we were laughing |
| 22 | You see I he came round and dug our footing , Sean ! |
| 23 | I know Chris was here doing doing his own calculations on books but after that I mean the I think on the Sunday I he came in and did some work . |
| 24 | Yes my it started there and went up to there . |
| 25 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 26 | He raised both his arms in his peculiar hieratic way , a way in which I knew now that there was something deliberately , not fortuitously , symbolic . |
| 27 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 28 | In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance . |
| 29 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 30 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |