Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I quite understand this Allan . |
| 2 | And I think you 'll agree , it is a difficult I mean I always stress this point about attitude , that a lot of problems that we get in our advice centres have been made worse because the customer has caused er you know argument or a scene |
| 3 | I have n't spoken to erm , I mean I only thought this coming along in the street , whether there 's anybody sort of notable , I mean is it , is , is , is there any value in actually having a figurehead type chairman you know , sort of celebrity type |
| 4 | Well do you know I never knew this I was recently hit by a car and , although not seriously hurt , I did go to casualty to have some cuts cleaned and an X-ray taken to check I had n't broken my ankle . |
| 5 | Do , let me just drink this and I 'll do you . |
| 6 | Let me just finish this off . |
| 7 | Okay , let me just finish this section then we 'll take er we 'll er we 'll take a break to er take a break for the rest of the day actually yes . |
| 8 | let me just finish this game |
| 9 | ‘ Hold still now , let me just fix this … there now . ’ |
| 10 | Let me just do this from er Road police station . |
| 11 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 12 | Hang on , let me just do this game on card |
| 13 | Let me just put this on pause for a bit . |
| 14 | And let me now posit this : ‘ dignity ’ has to do crucially with a butler 's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits . |
| 15 | Let there be no way out of it ; let me really make this promise . |
| 16 | Everything 's hunky-dory and I never hope I ever knock this , I do n't know whether Susan wants to hear this but since we started doing |
| 17 | Since many of my paintings feature horses these days , I feel I really need this knowledge in just the same way that being familiar with human anatomy is essential to really understanding figure drawing . |
| 18 | Since many of my paintings feature horses these days , I feel I really need this knowledge in just the same way that being familiar with human anatomy is essential to really understanding figure drawing . |
| 19 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 20 | Do n't let me just move this magazine . |
| 21 | Marriage , divorce , a new job , redundancy or sudden success may find questions like ‘ am I adequate ? ’ or ‘ do I really deserve this ? ’ rising to the surface . |
| 22 | Doubt is not primarily a question of particular faiths ( Should I believe this one or that one ? ) or even of the strength of faith ( Do I really believe this one or that one ? ) . |
| 23 | Did I really want this young man — oh , not now , this minute , pressed on top of me — but tomorrow , and the days after , breathing down my neck ? |
| 24 | But did I really need this ? |
| 25 | Why , he thought — if one can be said to think in dreams — did I ever take this on ? |
| 26 | Now mind , do n't say I ever mentioned this . |
| 27 | It 's as good a theory as any to explain it , because lord knows I never intended this to be anything other than a business arrangement . ’ |