Example sentences of "[det] [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 've got that targeted I think for an Easter job . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Some say I 'm a dour type of person , and maybe I am at times , but nothing means more to me than winning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Another says I smell of the sea , like oysters , fresh and salty . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This says I was good at the doctor 's today ? |
| 14 | ( Very occasionally we have a meeting that goes on later than this and if/when this happens I 'll let you know afterwards . ) |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 18 | By the time this appears I will have been here a year ( 11 January ) . |
| 19 | This meant I had to get in close . |
| 20 | This meant I faced a five-hour train journey , with two changes , and then — having retrieved my bicycle from the guard 's van — a fifteen-mile uphill ride . |
| 21 | This meant I had to get hay from the top barn for the rest of my cattle , which were still outside . |
| 22 | This meant I could blame the problems on other people or on situations outside myself . |
| 23 | This meant I did n't have to get risk life and limb to get a good close up shot . |
| 24 | ‘ By half term I might have finished the last one . |
| 25 | When I go on half term I ought to all things . |
| 26 | erm half term I think . |
| 27 | Whatever could this mean I wondered ? |
| 28 | When Maggie had perched herself on one she said , Does this mean I 'm being interviewed ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Does this mean I 'm a lymphomaniac ? ’ |
| 30 | Did this mean I was still under his spell ? |