Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [verb] [art] [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 | Oh yeah definitely see I 've started doing a newsletter for |
| 5 | I hate moving to tell the truth . |
| 6 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 7 | I planned an overnight stay at the Drumrunie Hotel , marked on the map and ten miles along the road , but when I tried to telephone to book a room , the operator told me that the hotel had recently been burnt down . |
| 8 | W. S. I tried to avoid using the stick . |
| 9 | I rally do need a rest , James . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to learn to play a mandolin. , |
| 11 | you know that back door key , I seemed to remember picking a key up thinking it was the garage key |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Wish I 'd thought to tape the call ; could have been a bootleg bestseller . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 … |
| 21 | Next day , as soon as I 'd finished giving a police statement about a drug addict who had threatened me and attempted to steal syringes and prescriptions , I went to see her in hospital . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | By the time I 'd learned to appreciate the Stage , I was already on it . |
| 28 | Higher up the dome became steeper , but by now I 'd learned to trust the rock a bit more . |
| 29 | Er , and I 'd forgotten to take the money up before Christmas so it was still here yesterday . |
| 30 | 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 |