Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor
2 No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ?
3 You want me to go in a garage and ask for , have you got a flick on band !
4 Leaving me to cope with a situation that is way beyond me ! ’
5 There 's no point in me appearing with a pig-tail and diamanté donkey jacket .
6 ‘ People would expect me to come into a room and crack them up , ’ Rowan , 36 , told Cosmopolitan magazine .
7 I have , I asked for an extension because like , in , in light of my present mathematical ne , need for seriousness , for seriously doing a hell of a lot of maths homework
8 I applied for a job and three people turned
9 I gabbled for a second as shock and rage choked my words .
10 Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man .
11 Erm in terms of taking up their ideas , guiding them , encouraging them etcetera an and saying look , you know , this is okay er er er I mean to an extent that would depend on how much military security there was in the area .
12 Is the autopsy going to give us much idea when Angela Morgan died — I mean within a day or so ? ’
13 Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are .
14 I realized with a shock that this was the first time I had been really unhappy since I had been taken prisoner .
15 Retracing my steps , I realized with a shock that I was no more able to find my way back to the village than I 'd been able to find the place we 'd been raking .
16 I realized with a start that the beautiful young woman who had spoken to us on the bank was his wife .
17 He did not ask : how much can I earn in a day if I do as much work as possible ? but how much must I work in order to earn the wage which I earned before and which takes care of my traditional needs ? …
18 I lay for an hour until the wind subsided enough for a hill to show two miles away .
19 Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) .
20 He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week .
21 I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay .
22 ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off .
23 There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off .
24 I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head .
25 Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady .
26 I got into a band when I was 13 playing melodic punk .
27 Then I got into a phone-box and made a reverse charges call to Auntie Jean , who was drunk and abusive as usual .
28 ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’
29 And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back .
30 There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget .
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