Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When that failed I stuffed my right hand down its throat to stop it biting and then smacked it twice between the eyes with my left . ’ |
| 2 | I think er it wo n't be long before that goes I think . |
| 3 | which needs to be deducted from the hundred and ten point two seven which gives you a re a possible alloca a possible amount of land to come forward in the structure plan period of seventy seven point six seven , off which to make the figures round properly you need to take another ten , for the retail element if that became I five land which could theoretically give you a figure of sixty seven point six seven . |
| 4 | That has I mean most of the welfare state has been er it 'll either created or extended by Conservative government so |
| 5 | Er my Noble my Right Honourable Friend did take account of that and he did agree that hereafter the appointment of the Chairman should not be an appointment made by the Home Secretary , but that shou he should be one made by the full authority and that has I 'm glad to say met with with approval . |
| 6 | I would reckon I 'll be finished with Norman about ten o'clock it takes me an hour and a half to drive down half past eleven say I 'm in here about twelve o'clock right , cheers |
| 7 | So it was awful to find I 'd done something wrong . |
| 8 | I 've got that targeted I think for an Easter job . |
| 9 | Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’ |
| 10 | I said to Cheryl please do n't go and invite to come to yours for dinner now and because insult us cos we 're not without him cos I 'm prepared to go I look forward to that . |
| 11 | You 'll be interested to know I 've just changed , I 've just renewed my insurance policy on my car which is an E reg V W Golf diesel . |
| 12 | You will be interested to know I have renamed it : |
| 13 | ‘ Some say I 'm a dour type of person , and maybe I am at times , but nothing means more to me than winning . |
| 14 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |
| 15 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 16 | I wrote to my mother who lived up at Manzanita with her sister , Mrs. R. V. Hungerford , telling her how I was leaving my position and would write again when I had found some place I liked . |
| 17 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 18 | Another says I smell of the sea , like oysters , fresh and salty . ’ |
| 19 | This bounding of the heart , this clarity of vision , this energizing , this moral certainty , this exaltation , this civic virtue , this murmured I love you , are all caused by a low-level smell emitted by one partner and subconsciously nosed by the other . |
| 20 | This says I was good at the doctor 's today ? |
| 21 | ( Very occasionally we have a meeting that goes on later than this and if/when this happens I 'll let you know afterwards . ) |
| 22 | Now I know there are some fish willing to feed I will cut down my feed rate to a dozen maggots only when I cast in . |
| 23 | Banging that basket he had they have , Erm and er the er used to go there er and there was a boil or was it er er an old fashioned I do n't know . |
| 24 | I like the old fashioned I do n't like the modern stuff . |
| 25 | When this happened I used to make up elaborate and probably unconvincing stories about car crashes , burns , skin grafts , incompetent surgeons and so on , anything rather than use the word ‘ disease ’ . |
| 26 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
| 27 | be easier to tear I think . |
| 28 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 29 | But before she could react , Jake went on to assure her , ‘ What 's more , you 're wrong to believe I was prying . |
| 30 | By the time this appears I will have been here a year ( 11 January ) . |