Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] i [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've spent the night thinking about everything that happened , and I now realise that I made a mistake about you being involved with Harry Martin . ’ |
| 2 | Well just say and just say that I had a bit of a ba an and I 'd like a check over that 's all just say that to them if you want alright ? |
| 3 | It is in my body qua sensitive that sensations occur ; and the occurrence of a sensation in some part of my body qua sensitive is all that I mean when I say that I feel a sensation in some part of my body . |
| 4 | ‘ People say because I have a wife and baby I 'm not committed as before do n't believe them ’ |
| 5 | Paige and I have a lot to catch up on , ’ she dismissed her ‘ friend ’ , who merely shrugged , nodded silently to Paige , and just as silently departed . |
| 6 | saw Charlene , did , wait until I get a shirt on and my socks Jean , oh |
| 7 | I do n't feel too bad — my legs ache and I got a sort of tight feeling in my tummy , but apart from that I 'm OK . |
| 8 | So that erm I mean if I recommended a Norwich Union income plan , and you nipped into Nottingham to buy , the charge would be the same , whether you bought it from me or from Norwich . |
| 9 | I just recall that I got a bit of a shock when I heard they found him on MOD property . |
| 10 | For example , we meet and I tell a joke ; we both laugh ; you respond with a joke ; we both laugh . |
| 11 | I always cringe when I see a lorry like that coming on the road when you ca n't see past it |
| 12 | I know that I laughed a lot , and that Will said it was a stupid play , with not a word of poetry in it . |
| 13 | Perhaps you know that I married a man who was very cruel to me . |
| 14 | Completely new to the Company , I know that I have a lot to learn and I 'd particularly like to thank for her help during the changeover . |
| 15 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
| 16 | I know if I got a flat tomorrow I could cope , whereas I could n't have before . |
| 17 | HARGREAVES : You know if I have a mind to love her , Belville , I will , and I 'm half in love with her already . |
| 18 | You know cos I know a lot of coloured from different areas . |
| 19 | If I do something stupid , like if I do a chequebook and card , I go to prison . |
| 20 | I know but I want a curl |
| 21 | They ask me , Is that your writing ? and it is of course it is those are Despot control codes from when the computer 's mouse was misbehaving and that 's the way I always spell when I do a shopping list . |
| 22 | Suppose that I expect a colleague to give me a lift home this evening , but that her car has a flat battery ; this wo n't stop us , however , because a friend 's car is parked conveniently near with some jump leads which we can use to get her car to start . |
| 23 | To analyse this case we note that I assigns a value to the randomised strategy ( P1 , … |
| 24 | Well I understand that I mean a lot of people do that . |
| 25 | It is great to be around friends who have never had a weight problem and find that I have a lot more energy than them and certainly a lot more breath ! |
| 26 | Dear boys , I feel that I have a message for you from your real mothers , and it is this : we hope our sons will die like Englishmen . |
| 27 | Nevertheless I feel that I have a responsibility to the public and to the world of art both to present your unpublished writings in as comprehensible a form as possible , and at the same time to correct some of the misleading impressions these might give , not of course about yourself , but about others , casually mentioned here and there in the course of your jottings . |
| 28 | I suppose if I got a newspaper it would help . |
| 29 | I guess I do have a slight leaning towards comedy , but I find if I do a bunch of comedies , I get anxious to do something dramatic , and the other way round . |
| 30 | I feel like I have a corpse in the passenger seat . |