Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | … So … it may be a very unusual and surprising decision that I have reached , but I intend here , appreciating the seriousness of the position , the ramifications that could follow , I propose to direct that these proceedings are stayed . |
2 | I want to emphasize that these shapes are not artists ' impressions . |
3 | In this chapter , I hope to show that these distinctions are important and not merely a play on words . |
4 | As I go back downstairs I begin to feel that this woman is making fools of us all — of Summerchild , Tite and Harold Wilson , of Ken Hurren and myself . |
5 | I try to accept that one day , somehow , I 'll understand . ’ |
6 | a point at the moment , with the life of the county , I think that we should great potential and great opportunity available to us , and I do hope that all members will er , and I 've written to all our members of parliament with a copy of my letter , er , I had I 've had er , I know it 's been the Christmas period , and that they 're only just getting back into things , and there 's been a lot of diversions at length , and I do have a letter from , er I heard from er , Edward , er , Mr Edward Lee , and and , I still have to hear it from er , the rest of them . |
7 | I hope it will be in all your club bars one of our bottles , we have distributed special bottles er sailor proof bottles I hope they are er which you put money in er very simply without any impediment and I do hope that all clubs will use those bottles and , and gather lots of money . |
8 | I do hope that positive arrangements are made to contact me in writing and that we can continue to work together to provide safe working conditions . |
9 | ( Single woman living with her unmarried brother and their very frail elderly mother ) I do think that disabled people , unless they 've had a big cash payment through an accident [ compensation ] … they do n't get enough to live on … |
10 | ‘ I do feel that financial managers have done themselves a disservice by just giving the numbers — you have to stop , take the managers through them and be an integral part of the operation . ’ |
11 | I do find that most people who come out here on short contracts are only looking for a paid holiday . |
12 | I do not know , but I do know that many homosexuals have not chosen to be homosexual but simply are that way . |
13 | How far this was true I do not know , but I do know that any suggestion from her to Harold Wilson was likely to receive an affirmative answer . |
14 | But I do believe that one act of violence seeds another . ’ |
15 | I ca n't get under trying to change the perceptions of white policemen but I do believe that black policemen have a strong responsibility to protect their people . |
16 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
17 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
18 | As I said on the second reading , I do believe that some areas will need to have larger authorities because of their size , or indeed their particular problems , geographical and otherwise . |
19 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
20 | I do understand that many people think wild animals roam over very large spaces and therefore feel cramped if they are kept in restricted areas but most have territories , areas which they mark out for themselves in various ways , and spend all their time inside these territories anyway and consequently they can consider their enclosure as being their own territory . |
21 | I do understand that some people with my condition have to take goodness knows how many tablets of one sort or another each and every day , so I suppose I am fortunate . |
22 | But as I said , I 've decided that human beings adjust themselves to any environment to which there is no alternative , and human life in here is the same as in the world outside , for which also there is no alternative . |
23 | Erm and er I 've felt that same sense of rightness at many times over these years , this is now our thirty seventh year ? |
24 | I 've noticed that most people over the age of forty whinge like a chainsaw about their memory not being as good as it used to be , or not being as good as they wish it were . |
25 | In only the last two years I 've noticed that more people are being drawn to the hills in Northern Ireland . |
26 | I 've heard that Chinese carrots tend not to be as reliable as some Eastern European ones … |
27 | I 've heard that wild animals wo n't harm you if you 're carrying a torch . ’ |
28 | I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers . |
29 | I 've heard that this farm was a very busy place on Tuesday nights and Wednesday mornings and the kitchen would be piled high with eggs and butter . |
30 | ‘ I 've heard that old men lose their interest in women . ’ |