Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 2.30AM Outside a gutted supermarket , I stop to talk to a group of young men pelting two carloads of police with pilfered eggs . |
| 32 | a number of the savings erm and the increased income that is available to , to avoid savings are the result of your own policies developed over a number of years and I hope implemented with a degree of further manage managerial action which has actually given you some money to spend , erm which will avoid you having to make er painful cuts in order to fund a new growth and in particular I would highlight the significant movement that has has now taken place , children from special educational needs provision outside the county , back into the county . |
| 33 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 34 | I happen to know of a supply in Siena but I 'd rather you kept it dark . |
| 35 | I stand listening for a moment — crying could ruin everything — but there 's only the rhythmic suck-suck , suck-suck , suck-suck as it breathes and sucks on the medicine . |
| 36 | I 'm not that way inclined , I like to go for a walk and have the fresh air on me and everything . |
| 37 | Um and erm I was just wondering y'know kind of erm often when I write questionnaires I like to go for a sort of more kind of rather less declarative statements . |
| 38 | Walking briskly towards Sloane Square to get some lunch at his club , he said : ‘ In Kenya , I like to sit in a car and watch the world go by . |
| 39 | Women tend to talk about real things , whereas Nigel and I like to sit in a restaurant retelling old stories . |
| 40 | Oh I said , yes she said , I like going on a boat , she said not that I 've been on one she said she 's never been on a boat across |
| 41 | I like to think in a minute way , I have helped to keep things going . |
| 42 | I like working in a team , and this seemed an interesting career . |
| 43 | I get asked to a party with John Paul Getty II and he does n't show . |
| 44 | when I was about twelve and I remember bashing into a nanny with a pram . |
| 45 | I remember looking at a graph showing the complications of the financing of the community charge . |
| 46 | George was taken prisoner , too , when he was fighting in France , and I remember reading in a newspaper how he had escaped as well . |
| 47 | I remember cramming into a photo-booth with Nick , Joe and Paul to take amphetamine sulphate and there was a policemen standing outside wanting to know what was going on . |
| 48 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 49 | He was a follower of Sham 69 and I remember going to a concert of theirs at the LSE and almost getting beaten up by skinheads . |
| 50 | ‘ Well , I remember going to a holo-bar that I could n't afford very often . |
| 51 | I remember sitting in a hotel in Lymm thinking that I could n't really spare the time for the Managing Quality course but I 'd run out of excuses ! |
| 52 | ‘ I remember sitting in a room … watching the Wimbledon final in 1975 ’ , she says . |
| 53 | I find knitting from a pattern in the Design Controller even easier than knitting with a mylar sheet . |
| 54 | I mean , the the one that 's , I suppose talked about a lot nowadays is A I D S , and there are some drugs , that have , will not cure A I D S , but will slow down , not the progression , but the regression that takes place with A I D S |
| 55 | It 's a lazy Saturday and I decide to go for a walk in Cwm Idwal . |
| 56 | ‘ When I 've laid a table and put a really good meal in front of my family I feel fulfilled as a woman . |
| 57 | I go shopping with a girlfriend in Sydney — where we have our own Oxford Street with designer shops — and together we cause havoc . |
| 58 | I try walking for a bit with my eyes closed proper , but I keep having to open them cos I 'm scared I 'm going to bump into summat . |
| 59 | I therefore answer my first question in the affirmative and I do find as a result that Miss T. had the capacity to make a valid refusal of blood on that Sunday afternoon and evening . |
| 60 | I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism . |