Example sentences of "[verb] what i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Forgive what I said earlier , Rober' . |
| 2 | And here I would like to quote the Levitical ruling on childbirth for it highlights what I hope is now becoming clear , i.e. the perceived gender differentials in blood and the connection between male circumcision and the female blood cycle : |
| 3 | ‘ You could n't buy what I learned from Joe , ’ Cohen said , ‘ and it makes you wonder about the people who are teaching them now . |
| 4 | I can buy what I need in Brussels — clothes , shaving kit . |
| 5 | I believe that each of us has what I term a spirit ( but which I am quite happy for others to call the soul , the higher self , the inner self — or any of dozens of different names ) and that it is this spirit which has a journey to make through several lifetimes . |
| 6 | ‘ Stephanie has what I think is known as an … infatuation for me . |
| 7 | ‘ Timmy has what I give him . |
| 8 | Chairman , the last speech was really explaining what I want to get over the fact that so many people want to talk on the issue and to complicate the issue . |
| 9 | Later in the book , I shall describe different manoeuvres , explaining what I think are the important factors . |
| 10 | I am becoming what I eat — fat free ! |
| 11 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 12 | Let me describe what I regard as the best conditions of all for bream fishing . |
| 13 | After many Christmases of justifying what I do , friends are beginning to realise that there is a lot more to sport than first meets the eye . |
| 14 | Then I provided what I hoped to be the optimum conditions for healthy growth — perfect drainage . |
| 15 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 16 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 17 | Erm , having looked at all that , I think what the issue really boils down to essentially is the willingness of the County Council and I suppose the panel , having heard what er the debate , to accept what I think is really a modest level of flexibility er er requested by the District Council . |
| 18 | I report what I feel , as well as the rumour that is spreading . |
| 19 | So if you like your fingerboards more cambered , either buy an Austin Special or badger Chandler and suggest what I did — that they offer a choice … |
| 20 | They eliminate what I call the " instinct " reporter , who perhaps can not pass exams but who is still street-wise , intelligent and eager . |
| 21 | It all underlined what I 'd always believed — that Famlio had grown to big , scattered and over-confident , and could be eluded by someone who was small , concentrated and clever . |
| 22 | Now that I have peace to do all this , I realise what I had previously suspected : the gilgul has used a fairly primitive spell . |
| 23 | I now realise what I have been missing , it is a very good magazine for knitters and I shall in future be buying it very month . |
| 24 | The colonel wanted to know what I had been doing and who I had talked to . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose because he got to know what I had seen and how much I remembered . |
| 26 | ‘ Then he wanted to know what I thought of young Hilary , ’ said Tom . |
| 27 | I was hard put to know what I thought about our guests — I mean since , as well as then . |
| 28 | Do you want to know what I done at school today ? |
| 29 | I would like to know what I get for that . |
| 30 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |