Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [conj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of you was talking to me at er lunchtime and telling me that he recently bought er er a C D of Dvorak 's Slavonic dances and when he played it it turned out to be some country and western music . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 3 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 4 | ‘ But there is nothing intrinsically wrong with Diana 's chart , whereas I can look at Charles 's chart and say I think there is something that prevents him from making the throne . |
| 5 | It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down . |
| 6 | it 's , or , or my driver 's capability that worry me |
| 7 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 8 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 9 | Nevil choked me until I almost passed out , then he lifted me out of the driver 's seat and bundled me into the back of Armstrong , hitting me on the back of the neck with what could have been an anvil but was probably his fist . |
| 10 | I should be grateful if you would put this to the Women 's Institute and let me know by 14th January if you are able to send a representative to the meeting . |
| 11 | Bernice said she would show me Billy 's room and leave me to it while she made lunch and did I fancy a drink ? |
| 12 | A female voice answered Bunny 's phone and told me he was out seeing a man about a second-hand tenor sax but I could leave a message after the beep . |
| 13 | Several of the backstage staff , including Annie and Jennifer , had bought a space in the Chassidic Hospital in Jerusalem in my Dad 's name and presented me with the certificate . |
| 14 | Now , keep signing Rob 's cheques and let me have Susan Hart 's phone number . ’ |
| 15 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 16 | Crilly leads me into Perry 's flat and seats me beside him on the orange settee . |
| 17 | It was not only Jean-Claude 's selfishness that struck me , but my collusion in it . |
| 18 | Cliff Morgan , a marvellously tricky Welsh stand-off half , became a pal late in Richard 's life and told me ‘ there was no doubting his passion for the game . |
| 19 | and I would do it is to go during the day , knock on somebody 's door and pretend I 'm selling something . |
| 20 | But the company 's past and present I can sum up quite quickly , if you like . |
| 21 | Yvonne wakes me up after an hour 's sleep and tells me I have to leave . |
| 22 | And the navigator replied in his normal Brummie voice : " Oh no , he is in the aircraft over there , " and the odd thing was that the flak left us and clobbered an aircraft near us , It was the dead-ringer of God 's voice that unnerved me , I put a stop to this impersonation of the Lord and , sadly . |
| 23 | The rescue helicopter still had n't arrived when we were fifteen miles from the coast and Warton gave me Blackpool 's frequency and wished me good day ’ . |
| 24 | It 's Jon 's drums that drag me in initially — precise , soft-stick , cymbal-heavy , to-the-letter and oddly hypnotic . |
| 25 | I went up to my bedchamber and prayed , as I have not prayed — from desolation — since I prayed to leave Mrs Teape 's house and thought I should never be answered . |
| 26 | ‘ I want you to come with me to Mr Sunil 's house and let me show you what I think happened to Billy Tuckett . ’ |
| 27 | Take me to the sea-king 's palace and show me his throne of silver , and his trumpets of pearl , and his coral candles burning beneath the waves ! " |
| 28 | He sees that this thing is in everybody 's interest and gives me protection . |
| 29 | ‘ He said he knew my father 's family and had I ever seen them . |
| 30 | Erm shit that reminds me I 've got to write a letter . |