Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 and I got some fruit up the market on Friday .
2 She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation .
3 I can remember several years ago bringing in a seventeen year old baby sitter to sit with Susannah , and I heard thirty bob .
4 I 'm not going to dwell too deeply on this as I personally ( and I know many people feel the same way ) ca n't find one trace of child molestation or anything else distasteful within those grooves .
5 I am 17 years old and I know many people who enjoy ‘ real ’ traditional music — no matter what speed it is played at , or how loud it is .
6 And I know these people do n't feel free , I know they 're all hurrying along or sitting there worrying about their jobs or their mortgages or being late or an IRA bomb in the nearest litter-bin , but I look at them and feel a terrible sense of loss , because I think I 've surrendered all this ; the ordinariness of life , the ability just to be part of it and take part in it .
7 ‘ We never turn a dog away , ’ said Pat , ‘ and I know some people will say that 's wrong .
8 " And I thought some people might like them . "
9 Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world .
10 Of course there 's always a ‘ trainspotter ’ element in any specialist field , and I guess those people would want to know every exact detail .
11 First thing is to make sure that you get an opportunity to discuss it and I agree other people who actually res responded in seem to collect the fee and I am not paid to collect the fee to try to make it very difficult for people to respond but nevertheless the numbers that we , I think in terms of other areas , other areas , the response that we got it is a bit ironic though to sit here in the afternoon having listened in the morning to a lovely discussion which was agonising three hundred , five hundred thousand for on traffic calming .
12 They 're ninety nine pence and I paid thirty pence for four today .
13 They can go round the corner to the , er I go to a church club er and I pay twenty-five pence and that includes my raffle and a cup of tea you see .
14 At that time I was strongly in favour of sanctions , and I supported the dispatch of American troops to Saudi Arabia , according to Bush , to deter an attack on that country ; though I would not myself have acceded to an American request to put British ground troops there , and I think many people in the Ministry of Defence argued strongly against that .
15 that you 're having , and I think other people have too .
16 Yes , I think that well non-government ways , I certainly thing that we should be continuing and I think ordinary people should be continuing , as indeed they are .
17 And I think some people she charges about one fifty but me I teacher .
18 And in this hundred , and I think most people here are at least over sixteen , ninety one of the women here were brought up by a mother and a father and only er , nine by one parent .
19 And I think most people in the Galaxy are like him .
20 Thank you Chairman I I think er as far as I twelve 's concerned the County Council 's er reasonably happy with that er er policy as it stands , and I think most people erm not all but but certainly the majority of people who er commented on that , commented in a sort of an affirmative way , erm again the provisions of the policy as they are hopefully reworded will er promote the same sort of flexibility and generosity that erm policy I five .
21 The next one is er got a meeting on it er I think the airlines are going on a very much a co- ordinated thing er I think most people are probably in agreement with this size eight exemption , make a group specific because really the idea when they put this original proposal in about the size of aircraft was to protect things like the and troops that are shall we say and I think most people would go for that line of thinking because as put in there , why the hell should something again on Cambridge when we ca n't on Stansted but it was really designed to protect certain things .
22 Erm somehow or other it 's going to come along and I think most people 's thinkings are that it will be shown as a tax item on the ticket as are the taxes in other countries
23 It was never even mentioned afterwards and I reckon 99 percent of players at that time would have sacked me .
24 And that 's true , but it 's often forgotten that some of us on this side of the fence also play professionally — they say teachers are failed musicians and I suppose many people see music journalists as those not good enough even to teach !
25 But I mean old people
26 We do not know whether those who have received an agricultural education run more profitable agricultural businesses but I imagine most people assume they do .
27 But I know some people have felt so miserable they have seen their doctor for some medicine and have been told that the fumes are the likely cause of their symptoms .
28 Now that 's fine , but I know some people who are in the city centre every , on Saturday , feel very guilty if they 're not constantly giving , and I do think we want to get that balance .
29 whatever you can , there 's no stipulation you 've got to do so many , you have to do whatever you can , but I expect some people can take them to work and just leave them on ca n't they ?
30 I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know .
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