Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | started school I thought it was gon na be a bit I thought I would n't like it there but when I got there , I did like it mum . |
| 2 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 3 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 4 | Since I was becoming a scientist they encouraged me |
| 5 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 6 | He gave me a look which made me wonder whether Mavis had n't , after all , spilled the beans . |
| 7 | He gave me a look which made me wonder if the leather riding gear was knife-proof , then he sprang at the internal phone and pressed two buttons . |
| 8 | ‘ You are no better than our readers , ’ he said , fixing me with a look it took me years to forget . |
| 9 | I du n no , right let me do this and then I 'll have a look I mean I 've got to do this because I 'm not sure of it , |
| 10 | ‘ As a midwife I thought I knew how to communicate with mothers , but my skills with deaf women were abysmal , ’ she says |
| 11 | Yeah , I I 've well that makes a change you know I mean some of my stuff 's come back from them and I 've wondered whether they 've read it . |
| 12 | When I find a guitar I like I 'll just buy multiples of that exact one ! |
| 13 | The first time i spotted a puffin I thought I was seeing things . |
| 14 | As a P.C. I felt I was not a success . |
| 15 | but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him |
| 16 | I met a brother-in-law who told me to leave but I stayed another night in our new house just outside the village . |
| 17 | Give me a complex you know I got a nose or something |
| 18 | Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er |
| 19 | For when I was hungry , you gave me food ; when thirsty , you gave me drink ; when I was a stranger you took me into your home , when naked you clothed me ; when I was ill you came to my help , when in prison you visited me . ’ |
| 20 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 21 | Carey addressed the wealthy directly , quoting Jesus ' parable about the sorting of the goats ( the wealthy ) from the sheep ( the poor ) in St Matthew 's gospel : ‘ The curse is upon you … for when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 22 | aggro I said no money no cars ! you 'll get a car I said I know you will he said ! |
| 23 | And all she could do , ’ Harriet , she says silently , what a betrayer you make me , immediately , ‘ all she could do was ask about the Royals , was Diana as beautiful as in Newsweek . ’ |
| 24 | We went into my room at last , with our arms round each other , and in the doorway I stopped dead because I 'd forgotten what Toby had said about John and for a second I thought I was in the wrong room . |
| 25 | My Adam 's apple swells in my throat , and for a second I think I 'm going to join her in tears . |
| 26 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
| 27 | As a child I remember I used to call my mother at home , ‘ mammy up the raw ’ , and grandma was ‘ mammy down the raw' … |
| 28 | There is a profound inertia and part of that in many places surely with it there is a profound inertia on another matter Dr Stuart referred to , in an answering a question he said I would see this as the , the role of the elder . |
| 29 | What a question you ask me now . ’ |
| 30 | When he told me you were pregnant by him , it was as though he 'd thrown a hand-grenade which blew me apart . |