Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 2 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 3 | and you 'll you know it does it itself you just , you , with the computer you just say well I had four pounds and I spent a pound on that and two pound on this thirty pence on that and it goes pow does it by magic . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't know why I feel this way . |
| 5 | Get a few nibbles sort of like couple of days before like er cos if Kim comes I 'll do like I did last year , just a little buffet tea . |
| 6 | Cu cut out I Saw Three Ships , and put Hark the Herald Angels in . |
| 7 | But first , but when we first came here I spent three hours on a Sunday morning , and I only did that area where you play football . |
| 8 | An and everything they be be architects or something , you 're gon na pick one who 's who who said well I did that building at London Airport or something like that . |
| 9 | Like I I see it done today I think that sort of thing , you used to stand in a corner . |
| 10 | I can still feel how I felt that day , nearly fifty years ago . |
| 11 | Nearly was yours nearly was nearly got it I 'm supposed to remember when I put these tapes on , half past seven till quarter past eight twenty past eight to when God this is gon na be awful , I shall never start , no leave that . |
| 12 | That bastard on that bus , when I got off I heard this voice saying and I looked round and there 's this ragger sitting there |
| 13 | all them eggs you know , when we went to Alec , when they were selling these trays of eggs , er , we went there with Alec , so I said I 'll have one like , and they were really fresh , but when I got home I got that thing of , from Kwiksave , I got the whole packet , big packet |
| 14 | And the zinc comes along and pushes the hydrogen out , it says , Hang on I want that sulphate . |
| 15 | As I was reviewing the material to be used here I had certain issues in my mind which concern the structure and meaning of the support given , based upon the ideas developed by anthropologists and sociologists who have studied kinship in Britain and elsewhere . |
| 16 | Do n't you remember how I stilled that storm ? |
| 17 | D' ya remember how I got that box where you could lay them in separately ? |
| 18 | Sometimes I get like I ca n't remember how I got some place . |
| 19 | Look how I put that microphone . |
| 20 | Ca n't remember when I had that bomber jacket . |
| 21 | For those who are wondering why I have this set-up , the three were introduced at a small size when I thought them a male and two females ; and I am unwilling to upset a settled pair by unnecessarily removing the decor and setting two with a net ! |
| 22 | ‘ I guess you 're all wondering why I called this meeting , ’ he says . |
| 23 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 24 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 25 | The fact that the three girls who were already employed at Number 147 just giggled whenever I gave any instructions , only made the appointment more pressing . |
| 26 | ‘ I always know when I visit Conservative houses because they wash their milk bottles before they put them out , ’ was one howler which contributed to her being booed off the stage when she addressed students at the London School of Economics . |
| 27 | I remember when I left Central School in 1966 they said the average life for a woman in the theatre was three years and seven for a man before giving it up . |
| 28 | It 's easy to forget that it 's over eight years since Pepsi and Shirlie first sang with Wham ! and Shirlie still laughs at the memories : ‘ When we started out I had one dress and I wore it to every photo session — I could n't afford any more ! ’ |
| 29 | Secondly of course there are opportunities and limitations to your , the resources that you have and I 've mentioned resources before , they can be economic , military , your education system erm you know at the moment the government 's expanding higher education , going up , well we 've , we 've touched already I think thirty percent now in higher education one of the reasons for that is not just to , for self-fulfilment for those who are erm involved in higher education as I 'm sure you 're all self-fulfilling yourself here today , it 's because of what is perceived to be a national need for a highly educated workforce . |
| 30 | And when I saw Bob 's name on there I thought well I know one face at least . |