Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will . |
| 2 | Having been long pent up in town , Annie and myself viewed Southall as a second Paradise , and I remember I nearly hung myself on my pin-before the very first morning after our arrival , in attempting to scale the yard gates to see the country beyond them . |
| 3 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 4 | ‘ It takes all your colour , ’ she began hesitantly , ‘ and I know I hardly look as though I would know which colour went with what , or what suited whom … ’ |
| 5 | Well I 've learnt a lesson good and proper and I 'ope I never see you again . ’ |
| 6 | As it happened , I emerged a little late and I fear I rather startled the young gentleman , who immediately pulled his attaché case away from me and clutched it to his chest with both arms . |
| 7 | I shall just have to play on and ride out the recession and I feel I still have three good years left in me at the top . |
| 8 | ‘ But what you have to understand is that I am a racer and I feel I still have an opportunity of winning the World Championship . |
| 9 | My focussing was so bad , my mind so fuzzy , he was like a shot from a Renoir film , He had a most serious smile and I think I just recognized him as my surgeon . |
| 10 | And I think I just might try to get hold of Mark . |
| 11 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 12 | It was fun , and I think I actually played some great shit , and if it gets on the radio it 's going to be good for all jazz guys , because there are some pretty hip notes in there … ! ’ |
| 13 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 14 | … delighted , enchanted , amused and interested , and I think I never saw anything more beautiful and gay than Paris — or more splendid than all the palaces . |
| 15 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 16 | I remember being pretty shy at school and I think I still am . |
| 17 | Well we were at a venture park on er Sunday and I reckon I probably did something on one of the rides without realizing it . |
| 18 | ‘ My father was a flight sergeant caterer and I suppose I just followed in his footsteps . |
| 19 | And I suppose I better get er Carl 's birthday card while I 'm at it . |
| 20 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 21 | That is over a million pounds right in that budget for committee administration and you ask me where we can save fifty thousand pounds , well start producing a few less reports . |
| 22 | And you know me very well Tom . |
| 23 | It 's a very considerable stride forward altogether and you know I highly commend it . |
| 24 | And you know I never give up on something I want . ’ |
| 25 | When we went to John Lewis 's in , in High Wycombe , they got some cheap fabrics on in lace or , or fine material , and you know I very much now regret not getting some , because I want to dress up , remember I had a , a lace cover , a fitted lace cover on my kitchen table |
| 26 | He said well I give you that Avenger estate he said cos I thought you were building your house , that 'll be handy for you you know yeah you did and you let me down badly ! |
| 27 | ‘ You 're in complete charge and you resent me anyway . ’ |
| 28 | Then you come along , and you tell me not only who made it but what his name was , how many eggs he laid and the colour of his tentacles . |
| 29 | I ask and you tell me where you think the record is wrong . |
| 30 | I know what , I 'll swop that for a pound coin , yeah , and you give me back the pound coin and plus that fifty P , yeah ? |