Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must not remember the story I set out to tell . |
| 2 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 3 | the thing , the thing that erm worries me is in case I go over is , that you say |
| 4 | I shake my head , frightened to speak in case I break down . |
| 5 | Oh well I wo n't move in case I tread on . |
| 6 | in case I run out |
| 7 | At some point during this soliloquy I look down and notice man 's best friend humbly licking my shoe . |
| 8 | And quite sane friends of mine , whose opinions I respect over other things , believe in this terrible religion . |
| 9 | Cinzia I pass over in silence . |
| 10 | So it 's an important change I think in er , the way it 's structured . |
| 11 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 12 | I demand to be paid for the hours I put in , whether your cousin passes her exams or not ! ’ |
| 13 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 14 | This is my milk I get out of the fridge |
| 15 | every hour I ring out . |
| 16 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 17 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 18 | Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed . |
| 19 | That 's a new component I put on there and that would be updated , yeah . |
| 20 | One Friday afternoon I hand over my gauzy cream tunic and slip into a kind of butcher 's apron , epically and namelessly stained . |
| 21 | For the most part I go out to have a good time , and hopefully communicate that to the audience |
| 22 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 23 | So , I would say that the design , the actual literal design , the graphics part of the projects I work on , is twenty percent of the work and the rest is all trying to explain and get it understood . |
| 24 | You pass the chosen card and then finger another as if you feel it is going to be the right one and then say ‘ How much do you bet me that the next card I turn over is the chosen one ? ’ |
| 25 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 26 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 27 | The whereabouts of the other two tureens are still unknown and every time I open the mail I hold out some hope . |
| 28 | At the height of the gale I go down to the pier to see how our local boats are doing , but all the anchors appear to be holding firm . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I want the Eubank return and Iran Barkley as well because he gives me the fear I thrive on , ’ said Benn . |
| 30 | … a little box ; in it a red rose , and round the stalk of the rose is a slip of paper with the words written : ‘ Rudolf — Flavia — always ’ and the like I send back by him . |