Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I have n't been in yet because when I do I want to have bought the silk flowers for the old lady . |
2 | I regret to have to tell the House that a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded in Musgrave Park hospital at 3.53 pm last Saturday , killing two soldiers and injuring 11 other people , among them a five-year-old girl and a baby of four months . |
3 | I say , I 'll I 've got to walk the end of the street , get a bus . |
4 | I hate moving to tell the truth . |
5 | W. S. I tried to avoid using the stick . |
6 | Erm I 'd liked to discuss the point about what aid we can give to try and promote the stability and the event of prosperity of the country . |
7 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
8 | I suppose I 'd wanted to lure the boy into an acceptance of our ways and if pancakes were the bait , I 'd use it . |
9 | Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to . |
10 | I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded . |
11 | Wish I 'd thought to tape the call ; could have been a bootleg bestseller . |
12 | ‘ By the time I 'd finished reading the report I was fairly confident that if I , as an adult , accepted what was on that screen as being right , valid and interesting , then it would be the same for a child — provided I took out any excessive sexuality and violence . |
13 | ‘ When I 'd finished writing the book I had lunch with a publisher ; she walked in with this crestfallen expression on her face , saying , ‘ I expected somebody taller , blonder , and just more … |
14 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |
15 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
16 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
17 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
18 | But I have n't gone really as I hoped cos I 'd envisaged having the membership list with sort of names of who 'll make cakes , who 'll help on the stall and then know who to phone |
19 | By the time I 'd learned to appreciate the Stage , I was already on it . |
20 | Higher up the dome became steeper , but by now I 'd learned to trust the rock a bit more . |
21 | Er , and I 'd forgotten to take the money up before Christmas so it was still here yesterday . |
22 | I know I 'd had to smash the door , he had to smash the door open with a spade , the lock for me , cos , he , he , he could n't get , he tried er taking that panel out at the bottom and he could n't get it out and I did n't really want him to smash the double glazed glass , in fact it , that would of been very difficult |
23 | ‘ But Maurin had gone roaring off in a taxi and I 'd had to find the bus stop and so I did n't seriously expect to . |
24 | I hope to have established the point that it is not necessary to adopt the apocalyptic views of events put forward by the more sombre critics , nor to deserve the dismissive label ‘ puritanical ’ in order to believe that there are very good reasons why parents have to enforce rules . |
25 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
26 | Well how am I going to get the ba , how 's , how am I going to manage to get the bacon crisp without getting the onions cra brown ? |
27 | Every door of the house I open seems to reveal the author of Fair Do's ( and no doubt something rather more respectable , to keep up professional appearances , on someone like Kant ) , tremendously there , as on the back cover of his book , his eyebrows and hair curling coarsely . |
28 | But he 's never ever , as far as I know offered to drive the minibus . |
29 | I like to see tipping the bugger in like that . |
30 | I remember trying to hold the umbrella against the rain and the wind was gusting over 40 miles per hour . |