Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 2 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 3 | I mean now talking to some of the girls a lot of their parents are very strict on them . |
| 4 | Although I remain strongly opposed to any closer political or economic union with Europe , will my right hon. Friend accept that the leadership that he has shown at the Maastricht conference and his toughness in the negotiations clearly display that he is the only party leader competent to govern this country during the next few years ? |
| 5 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 6 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried not to listen to all that dirty talk , but the truth is a couple of suggestions left me wondering … ’ |
| 8 | I want now to turn to some questions of form and genre , trying to identify a particular set of formal and institutional parameters for television , and returning at the end of the essay to questions of value . |
| 9 | I want now to look at some of these images of the female self in feminist discourse : my particular examples are from the work of Mary Daly , Marilyn Frye and Kate Millett . |
| 10 | I want now to look at some aspects of self-experience that I think should be central to any theory of self , and hence to any discussion of women 's autonomy . |
| 11 | And they used to buy me new material to encourage me and I learnt how to sew from that . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 'd just got opposite that poor woman 's house , and I glanced up at it . |
| 13 | I 'd rather taken against this woman — she was frightfully solid and know-it-all and not funny , you know — and to be difficult I asked her how she knew this , thinking that she would quote out of some boring manual or other . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd completely forgotten about that . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd already thought of that , ’ Laura told her gloomily . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd never suffered like that , not to the extent where tears were pouring down my face for no apparent reason . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd never thought of that , ’ replied Mcduff . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got to hand it to you , Angel , I 'd never thought of that technique , ’ said Bunny with genuine admiration . |
| 19 | I 'd never thought like that before . |
| 20 | But I do n't think I 'd better think about that . |
| 21 | Talking of which , I 'd better look into these two queries before I do anything else . ’ |
| 22 | Now you can cross Snow White off and all we 've got left to find is witch , oh , there it is , right go from the W , W , W , from the W , right now come down , oh I 'd better help with this one because it 's diagonal , I T C |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 24 | I was only on the drug for seven days and by the seventh day , I 'd suddenly turned into some sort of maniac . |
| 25 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 26 | No , I did n't think that , you see I do n't worry about that . |
| 27 | Mr Browne said Jesus died cos we 're all bad , but I du n no about that . |
| 28 | She said I could keep any of the stuff she left behind , or sell it if I wanted , but I du n no about that . |
| 29 | Oh I du n no about that . |
| 30 | ‘ Then all your family worries descended on your lovely shoulders and I decided not to add to that burden . |