Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’ |
| 2 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |
| 3 | I wrote to my mother who lived up at Manzanita with her sister , Mrs. R. V. Hungerford , telling her how I was leaving my position and would write again when I had found some place I liked . |
| 4 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 5 | The Holy Spirit is the one , there 's no right answer to this let me say . |
| 6 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 7 | But nevertheless this week 's startling news that Nicholas MacMahon , the four-year-old Mozart-loving computer genius , could talk and read before he was a year old set me wondering about my own wild-eyed nine-month-old infant . |
| 8 | erm half term I think . |
| 9 | Though I can run this machine half speed I have to be meticulous with the timing . |
| 10 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 11 | Moreover , as soon as the English think I know the name of their traitor , I will be kept safe . ’ |
| 12 | 31 30 DO I HAVE TO SAY THE WORDS ? |
| 13 | I painted all mine white with some paint I had left over from an Airfix model of Apollo 11 but all I managed to do was clog up the mechanism . |
| 14 | Throughout all of this have I reacted ? |
| 15 | They 'll give up and leave us to get on with some work I imagine . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't intend to write all the time , though there is some work I want to do . |
| 17 | Today today we 're declaring an interim dividend of one point three three per share er compared with the same period this year er sorry let me start that again . |
| 18 | Let me take that let me take that |
| 19 | The quality of our clients perhaps could be improved , we do n't have very many large plc clients here in Manchester , the competition , er P W's and K P N G have a better or bigger let me say that , bigger er P L C client base than than we do . |
| 20 | And the quantitative distinction which is well illustrated by this photograph , which is completely typical let me get the one , hang on right , this is a photograph of a hamster ovum with a hamster sperm just fertilizing it there and you can see that the hamster sperm is a lot smaller than the hamster ovum , and this is totally typical , it 's smaller by many orders of magnitude . |
| 21 | ‘ That was straight talk I gave you that time , shamus . |
| 22 | How much do I want erm |
| 23 | ‘ How much do I owe you ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ How much do I owe you ? ’ |
| 25 | How much do I owe you ? " |
| 26 | ‘ How much do I owe you ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ How much do I owe you ? ’ she asked weakly . |
| 28 | ‘ How much do I owe you ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ How much do I owe you ? ’ |
| 30 | How much do I owe you ? |