Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm in terms of taking up their ideas , guiding them , encouraging them etcetera an and saying look , you know , this is okay er er er I mean to an extent that would depend on how much military security there was in the area . |
| 2 | Is the autopsy going to give us much idea when Angela Morgan died — I mean within a day or so ? ’ |
| 3 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 4 | I lay for an hour until the wind subsided enough for a hill to show two miles away . |
| 5 | I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay . |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 7 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 8 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 9 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 10 | I long for a blockbuster that 's also good writing . ’ |
| 11 | I sleep like a log and never get indigestion . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , reasonably , ’ I say with a smile and turn back to my work . |
| 13 | They were made of diamonds , not gold , but I wore them when I want to a ball and never felt my immortal soul in danger because of that . |
| 14 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 15 | ‘ As noon approached , I put on a raincoat and hat . |
| 16 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 17 | I put on a spacesuit and went into the cargo area were I found that while the main part of the sculpture was now solidified again , the fibres on the floor were disintegrating and useless . |
| 18 | I put on a jersey and jacket and lay with head and shoulders propped against a locker , eating sardines and mopping the oil from the can with fresh bread . |
| 19 | And I walk down a corridor and I go in a door , and they 're there . ’ |
| 20 | I walk with a frame so Karen gave me a hand and took me round and introduced me to people . ’ |
| 21 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 22 | I climb into a taxi and head for Harvey Nichols to do some damage with the Barclaycard and the taxi driver tells me about his brother-in-law . |
| 23 | But I yearn for a child or even children . |
| 24 | I look at a person and if you like me you like me |
| 25 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 26 | I read in a magazine that he was from Scotland . ’ |
| 27 | I read in a paper that in some states more than 50 per cent of subscribers are now ex-directory . |
| 28 | have I time for a scrub or what ? |
| 29 | I find it tragic when I hear of a couple where one knows the other is dying , but neither can bear to talk about it . |
| 30 | This is partly due to my experiences as a politician , because I know as a politician that when you are doing something naughty , nothing is more effective than to muddy the waters with complication . |