Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm so pinched for time that I race around grabbing the first thing I see . ’ |
| 2 | Yes , what it was , early in the season when I was playing left back erm I had to stay back , but recently because I 'm playing centre half , I get up to get the set pieces , so it 's nice for me as well . |
| 3 | I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him . |
| 4 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 5 | I looked round to glimpse the dark mass of Royston Manor and the swaying corpse of the hanged man caught my glance . |
| 6 | do I go on doing the next |
| 7 | I keep on thinking the same thing . |
| 8 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 9 | I went out to supervise the final stampede . |
| 10 | I went down to examine the poor priest . |
| 11 | My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail . |
| 12 | when , when I went in to work the other day , Pete says I do n't know about that , that Kenwood stuff |
| 13 | I get very uptight over what to say without upsetting him , so when we do finally talk I end up saying the wrong things . |
| 14 | I hobbled over to collect the missing shoe and the dress detached itself a press stud at a time , disengaging itself completely as I bent — bottom to camera — to retrieve the shoe . |
| 15 | I sat down to watch the late afternoon shadows climb Rise Hill before striking out for the Occupation Road . |