Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean sometimes used to get hammer and chisel to 'em |
| 2 | I mean sometimes do it very cleverly but what I 'm saying is I want to illustrate what I meant by the words never used message . |
| 3 | And I felt like I remember sometimes feeling as a child when I was doing something a bit difficult , a bit daring . |
| 4 | I do sometimes fancy something a bit more refined . ’ |
| 5 | I do sometimes go down to 2½lb , but although I have never been broken on it I never feel as confident as I ought . |
| 6 | I said you , she said yes , I 'm afraid so and I said I do sometimes begrudge it to those men in there . |
| 7 | I do sometimes have a lay down but in my school she says right , can you go and , I go like that . |
| 8 | Bacardi and coke is my only tipple and I do sometimes get through a couple on nights when I 'm in myself , well it 's better than turning to the biscuit barrel is n't it ? |
| 9 | I do sometimes get asked how many machines I 've had and although I have n't actually counted them up , you will see that it is quite a few ! ! |
| 10 | always says Hello to me every time she sees me and I do sometimes see in the mornings . |
| 11 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 12 | Mm , no , let me have those then , cos I do sometimes poach an egg |
| 13 | Violet next door to me , who I help sometimes rake over her allotment , is eighty-five years old , and if one was to draw a graph of her life from 0–85 , it would be one of unremitting poverty . |
| 14 | I 've sometimes made some rather awful mistakes when I have thought first about what I would like to give rather than what my friends would like to receive , so do try to find out before you embark on a special garment . |
| 15 | No , what I 'm saying is erm that having looked at each individual case that I 've sometimes felt frustrated about , I 've been glad that they are n't larger for the sake of coming down to human rights . |
| 16 | Since getting older I 've sometimes hoped for someone with whom to have a good relationship . |
| 17 | Cos I 've sometimes caught bus up from other end , if I 've gone our Neil 's or summat . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've sometimes thought she was perhaps my mother , ’ she suddenly said in a rush and then paused , turning the statement into a question . |
| 19 | I mean , I 've sometimes got the impression that … that you and Guy are , I mean … ’ |
| 20 | When painting during redecorating , I 've sometimes had to remove a telephone cable and staples from the skirting , to make a neat job of it , rather than paint over the cable . |
| 21 | To counteract this , I 've sometimes specified quantities of potatoes , rice and pasta in the menus , just for the 28-day period , but given two courses at every meal so you should n't need to eat in between . |
| 22 | On five different occasions ( and in three countries ) I have asked teachers to mark essays , projects , assignments , and I have sometimes indicated that they were by boys and other times that they were by girls . |
| 23 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 24 | He displayed that strange other-worldliness that I have sometimes detected in other people who follow some strict religious code . |
| 25 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 26 | I have sometimes whiled away idle moments in speculating how far one could elaborate this figure before the reader became suspicious . |
| 27 | Like Ira Dilworth I have sometimes used the words of a poet to express a specific sentiment and I would therefore like to quote Ira in his Foreword to Emily 's autobiography ‘ Growing Pains ’ : |
| 28 | For a split second , I have sometimes failed to recognize that it is my own face that is being reflected back at me . |
| 29 | ‘ I have sometimes thought that more might be done than is commonly attempted in education to familiarise the idea of death to the minds of children by representing it as the grand event for which they were born ; and thus making a future state the object of their chief interest and ambition . |
| 30 | I have sometimes thought of this free life of the spirit as like the life of the nomads of the desert . |