Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 2 | I mean marginal land tends to be brought into use , the less productive land , precisely when there is a pre the pressure |
| 3 | erm I agree , and I actually think these figures are relatively crude , but I mean , there is , clearly there are correlations between low income , which most I mean unemployed people have of course got , and ill health . |
| 4 | but then you can , you can specialize you see , I mean some nurses go into the theatre all the time once they 've qualified |
| 5 | I mean those horses offered at fifty to one could have been offered at a hundred to one and still the bookies would have finished up ahead , but of course those people those few people who 'd at fifty to one would have one twice as much . |
| 6 | I mean most projects start with some introduction which is related to extant material , whether it 's fine art or fabric design or whatever , and then to analysing the basic level , as it were , up to the appropriate level for the age group . |
| 7 | I stress that money relates to new equity and is not directly linked to any specific plans by Stagecoach for bids for SBG companies . |
| 8 | Her breasts swing in a way I defy any artist to capture in paint . |
| 9 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 10 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 11 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 12 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 13 | I expect that lot belonged to her late husband . ’ |
| 14 | Back at The Milebrook I found two letters waiting for me . |
| 15 | ‘ I came by here once , with the wind wet and howling , and I found three Japanese huddled under the lip of the bunker . ’ |
| 16 | He complained , not at length : ‘ This was the first time , and except one , the last , that I found any reason to complain of a Scotish [ sic ] table , and such disappointments , I suppose , must be expected in every country , where there is no great frequence of travellers . ’ |
| 17 | Tight-eyed against the light , I found some finger holds at the edge of reach and slid , sackless for the second time , onto the white slab . |
| 18 | I suggest two points to bear in mind . |
| 19 | I recollect one girl putting on dark glasses as a disguise in the hope that she would be luckier than Oliver Twist . |
| 20 | I want that bird flying in a couple of weeks or less . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I want that meeting to happen before an election , ’ said Dr Kumar . |
| 22 | ‘ I want some time to think about what you have told me . |
| 23 | I want this Parliament to continue to be the forum of our nation and I believe that the vast majority of our people share my wish . |
| 24 | If I said , I want this job done in two hours . |
| 25 | ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all . |
| 26 | I made a coconut cake but er er I put some coconut icing on it pink . |
| 27 | Walking along with a friend one evening , near Leicester Square , I noticed two men arguing with each other . |
| 28 | I hope this Margaret goes in the same way as the other Tory Margaret . |
| 29 | Nor do I spend much time listening to jazz . |
| 30 | In case anyone is wondering , I read this cover to cover on the flight home , when I am a most captive audience for almost any reading material . |