Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
2 | I do n't want it poured over my head from a bucket in a comic that only appeals to the most basic and obvious , nor do I want to read the photo-copied scribblings of an undergrown fifth-former . |
3 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
4 | mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest |
5 | And it 's self employment so the couriers that we er supplied with the parcels with are the p- umm er , they 're liable for tax and insurance if any is due , I mean earn a certain amount of money before you start |
6 | I mean said the other day , Why do n't you pack up this stupid idea of picketing . |
7 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
8 | Like , you got , I mean put the other side of the . |
9 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
10 | Cos I mean get a good deal |
11 | By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … . |
12 | But it is n't enough to write well ( I mean choose the right words and so on ) to be a good writer . |
13 | That does I think form a significant element because it makes a difference of nearly two and a half thousand dwellings . |
14 | I disdained to consult a medical dictionary , however . |
15 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
16 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
17 | [ I intend pursuing the other objectives this Autumn . ] |
18 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
19 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
20 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
21 | I intend to uncover the old boy system where everybody covers up when cases like this arise . |
22 | If I do not get a satisfactory reply I intend to pursue every possible means to draw the public 's attention to this iniquitous state of affairs , which for a big company like P & O is an absolute disgrace . |
23 | ‘ Some kids where I lived dug a dead person up , ’ says Dmitry . |
24 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
25 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
26 | The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices . |
27 | I failed to deposit an accurate simulacrum of her visage and demeanour with the left-luggage clerk of memory ; but I think she was in a shirt of a hue between sage and lovage , atop grey stone-washed 501s , green socks and a ridiculously unaesthetic pair of trainers . |
28 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
29 | There are some marvellous graphics among these new breeds but , having never particularly liked comics , I failed to overcome a fundamental irritation with the medium of pictures and words combined . |
30 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |