Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] i [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want , I 'm just saying to you what I want to do I actually want to consolidate my own qualifications |
| 2 | Oh my God , darling , I 'd forgotten I ever signed that ! ’ |
| 3 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 4 | I can do it OK if I hang onto the side , but when I let go I just sink . |
| 5 | I think I 've got listen I really do n't think you need argue over it . |
| 6 | All all packets that we can use to identify I really do need people to talk to me . |
| 7 | Then if I get caught I just get a caution and that 's it . |
| 8 | I wonder whether the others would have replied had I suddenly become famous ! |
| 9 | What , what I try to do I just hang on to them till somebody shouts . |
| 10 | Looking back , I fancy that when I went skiing I always hoped that the snow was covering some kindly grass , certainly not something as hard and painful as the arres of Pierre-Saint-Martin . |
| 11 | she 's saying she enjoys knitting I just gone and give a great big plastic bag full |
| 12 | And I do believe I still have some influence with my husband . ’ |
| 13 | No I was just about to say confidence really I find it quite difficult to get assertive erm but when the situation does arise I suddenly get a gut feeling about it later |
| 14 | It obviously took a while to find my feet with the group but when I had done I really started to enjoy myself . |
| 15 | I , I , I can see what you 're trying to do I just think |
| 16 | oh Rebecca , I can think of five million things I 'd rather do Rebecca says she likes ironing I certainly do n't |
| 17 | As , only a few months ago , she very charmingly killed a similar measure that I had introduced I doubly welcome her support now . |
| 18 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 19 | It had so impregnated my string vest that when it had dried I almost succeeded in standing it up like a birdcage . |
| 20 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 21 | Before we got married I just thought I had I 'd never had my legs shaved er , waxed before . |
| 22 | erm , I I let the person do what they wanted to do and not what I wanted to do I just went along with what they said |
| 23 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 24 | Personally , I have to say I slightly prefer International , but Pro is still a definite buy at this price — you 'd probably pay as much for one strawberry at Wimbledon ! |
| 25 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 26 | Yes Chairman I 'd like to second that and just to erm say very briefly that er erm I , I very much welcome the report and the speed with which the Chief Officer is seen to have addressed most of the issues there are one or two bits that , that were of course were in fact posters , posters er be dealt with erm I have to say I still have some concern erm that the Chief Fire Officer and his team are so well supported on a very broad front on their decision making and their professionalism and yet on other matters of sound advice which has been given by er who are turned aside and just simply not given the proper consideration that they should have as in that er respect Chairman and I , I , I have some concern , erm it , it would not surprise me indeed if the , Her Majesty 's Inspector of er er brigades , when he comes round himself , has some comment to make on that since I think he 's expectations as well are almost as high as mine is . |
| 27 | ‘ Look , I 'm not a feminist as such but I have to admit I rather resent that remark ! |
| 28 | Trouble was , I just could n't hold the sheep properly — but then I have to admit I never liked doing it . |