Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to try to clear away the distinction between two kinds of text , the " literary " ( or poetic ) and the " non- literary " , as regards the function of context . |
| 2 | I did n't go after anything fancy , but somehow I seemed to keep muffing up the interviews . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , certainly , ’ I said , and went to fetch some from the cold locker in the kitchen , thanking my stars that I 'd happened to see where the soft-drink cans were kept . |
| 4 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 5 | Well , I 'd started going down the nick . |
| 6 | ‘ If you boys miss anything , like if the guy 's lammed out , I figure to get paid just the same . |
| 7 | I forgot to say take out the bay leaf before it sets . |
| 8 | ‘ I seem to have got entirely the wrong end of the stick this afternoon , ’ she said sadly . |
| 9 | Once I was in that job , I started looking to see where the bodies were buried . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I bin asked to take over the choir like , for the concert , play the organ … . ’ |
| 11 | However , I do want to query why the LTA produces a high gloss tennis magazine at a cost that is totally uncommercial and it does so in direct competition to other magazines which have to operate within the framework of normal commercial practice . |
| 12 | I did manage to sort out the food for tomorrow and |
| 13 | It was n't easy , but I did manage to get practically the last two available tickets . |
| 14 | And I thought to myself no I 'm not gon na go out , I did start to go out the park and I thought no . |
| 15 | I had to race to keep up the momentum but I was forced to rest five minutes in every twenty . |
| 16 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 17 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 18 | I 've got to go up the town , like |
| 19 | " I 've got to give up the job . |
| 20 | Over the past chapters , I have sought to show how the combination of broken homes , disturbed domestic backgrounds and lack of a full understanding of the needs and implications of formal education create a family environment unsuited to the requirements of black youth in British education . |
| 21 | If I do n't spot the trouble straight away , the knitting goes tight or the yarn snaps and it causes no end of frustration when I have to stop to sort out the mess . |
| 22 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 23 | When I have finished reading out the list , I shall tap on the table . |
| 24 | I have tried to explain why the hon. Member for Gateshead , East and I were talking at cross purposes . |
| 25 | In this article I have tried to tease out the underlying assumptions of educational policies concerned with ‘ race ’ and gender . |
| 26 | There has not been space to say much about the flight from generality in the world outside mind , but I have tried to show how the attempts to flee generality within the mind and to abandon or reduce consciousness must both fail . |
| 27 | To avoid creating a new problem I have had to shorten slightly the northward move of the Clerk Street stop . |
| 28 | I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside . |