Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] i " in BNC.

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1 I will find some shops that suit me . ’
2 He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they !
3 I went to my doctor who gave me some pain-killers and told me to rest .
4 It 's a wonderful opportunity , please do n't discard it out of hand because of pride or pique , just think it over for a few days and let me know your decision when you are ready . ’
5 Now from the , from the evidence that we 've all looked at over the l past few weeks and tell me if I 'm boring you
6 ‘ But there are some things that disturb me .
7 And what we in fact the the reason we tell people everything on the phone Ron is that there are some things that pen I did have one here ,
8 Not until you give me a few answers and do me the courtesy of telling the truth . ’
9 I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail .
10 Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth .
11 And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching .
12 ‘ Perhaps you could give me one of these coins and send me away with a beating ?
13 ‘ Now I 'm in the side , I 'm running into these superstars and thinking I 'm only a young boy , but I 'm mixing it with the best .
14 ‘ I could n't tell you much about Liverpool 's players these days but ask me about Uxbridge 's outside-right and I 'll give you a Dimbleby lecture — if you can stay awake long enough , ’ he jokes .
15 The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right .
16 So it was the likes of that and these things that got me to know my staff and got my staff to know me .
17 There 's summat about these lights that remind me of Annie — I du n no what it is .
18 It 's these tests that worry me .
19 And that 's all these are in Tony 's hou I 'm just trying to show them Tony 's house first you see cos it 's it 's all these tiles that fascinate me .
20 Well , Her Ladyship was rather special because she was with me for many years and supported me by producing calves for market .
21 Thank you , yes , erm thank you very much for inviting me to attend to those meetings and giving me the opportunity to meet you all .
22 There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over .
23 They took all my own clothes and gave me a nightgown .
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