Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 2 | Luckily I managed to get a job with a small fit-up touring company — playing small theatres in the provinces , living in digs , away from the spotlight and very badly paid . |
| 3 | Next week 's vital for most of them — luckily I 've got a job to go to . ’ |
| 4 | Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma . |
| 5 | E eventually I did get a job . |
| 6 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 7 | Hang on I 've had a I 've had a fitter there . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
| 9 | Before passing on I want to raise a problem with all this . |
| 10 | Even better I thought to find a society that automatically lets its existing investors know when a better deal becomes available . |
| 11 | Then she breathes out and gives a real smile — one of those big things that brightens her face like a starburst — and I see she 's been frightened , and I sigh , and suddenly I 've got a lump in my throat and I 'm trembling and I do n't think I can move away from this wall . |
| 12 | Naturally enough I had to play a couple of games for the long-suffering Jewish Chronicle photographer ( who must have nightmares about having to snap me on his deathbed ) . |
| 13 | Interestingly enough I 've got a book er back in my office about things like T V comedy and situation comedy and stuff like that and also y'know kind of variety sort of comedy with sketches and s y'know Two Ronnies , Monty Pythons and stuff erm would that be of any use to you if you were to borrow it ? |
| 14 | ‘ If only I 'd had a stable childhood , maybe none of this would have happened … . ’ |
| 15 | Only I 've get a if you want one . |
| 16 | Only I 've got a horrible feeling if it 's |
| 17 | Stopping again for things to calm down I began to do a few unwelcome sums . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you know , perhaps I 've made a mistake . |
| 19 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 20 | Perhaps I did have a few lucky breaks as an investigator , now and then — and some useful assistance , here and there . |
| 21 | But obviously I had to make a choice as neither of them wanted a threesome friendship . |
| 22 | And erm obviously I 've got a lot of contacts in the industry . |
| 23 | I mean obviously I want to get a job to get start getting money erm to own my own car is gon na involve money . |
| 24 | So I went to see a man in Devonshire Place and he sent me down the road for a barium meal X-ray . |
| 25 | So I had to serve a week 's notice and I went down this er what 's the name of it ? |
| 26 | So I 've done a variety of jobs , and I 'm not quite sure how I ended up doing what I 'm doing I got into computers by accident , just being in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 27 | Well the farmers for the last couple of years have been arguing that they want this green rate devalued er to try and bring it line more with the market rate er and what this would do would er increase our guaranteed prices in this country and in fact on Friday this happened er the green rate was devalued by 60%. er and so I 've done a few calculations er and for the farmers that are listening and er may understand this er if he was selling his grain in November 89 he would be getting about £99 a ton , whilst if he sells it in November this year he 'll be getting £110 a ton . |
| 28 | The other thing is I need er we need to monitor the source of er informations reg information regarding the cordless phone promotion so I 've devised a form which I 'll get faxed yeah in other words , where did they find out about the promotion . |
| 29 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 30 | Yeah that 's right they cos Erm so I 've got a whole long list of all these people who used to belong to Harlow which is absolutely enormous . |