Example sentences of "[adj] i [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever possible I try to get a Lecture Theatre , erm but I was told it was booked all day today we were originally in presentation room then came , so be grateful we 're in the Board Room . |
| 2 | For instance , at least once a week if possible I like to buy a Rail Ranger or similar train or bus ticket and travel the countryside and towns just looking at everything . |
| 3 | This is the wage rate in agriculture , right , now if we discount , sorry I 've made a cock-up of this , that 's erm , that 's not discounted , right , if we discounted , it 's going to look |
| 4 | sorry I 've got a little handout for you with bits of information and there 's also a picture of a breach presentation and this baby has got its feet right up into its high socket . |
| 5 | Sorry I 've left a bit out |
| 6 | ‘ And on top of that I 've got a date with the company minibus at half-past nine tomorrow morning . |
| 7 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 8 | Also , before I did that I 'd made a hoax call saying that Boots ’ chemist was on fire . |
| 9 | I can show you hawthorn , beech , oak , ash , elderberry and sycamore ; after that I have to take a leaf home and look it up in a book . |
| 10 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 11 | I do n't grease them I just put this I 've got a pile of little circles of greaseproof paper ready cut to fit the |
| 12 | WHERE n IS A NUMBER LARGER THAN 2 , THERE ARE NO WHOLE NUMBERS x , y , z SUCH THAT , AND OF THIS I HAVE FOUND A MOST MARVELLOUS PROOF , BUT THIS MARGIN IS TOO SMALL TO CONTAIN IT . |
| 13 | For this I decided to do a painting looking from my conservatory through the windows into the garden with two white chairs as the focal point . |
| 14 | To illustrate this I want to put a bar chart and a table from the spreadsheet in my word-processed document . |
| 15 | To avoid this I propose to place a layer of mortar on the lining and lay bricks on top which will be covered by slabs . |
| 16 | Funny I 've got a sweet tooth when it comes to like chocolates and things like them |
| 17 | In Table 2 I have shown a typical capital budget over four years . |
| 18 | For some reason or another I 've found a pizza that does n't affect his skin |
| 19 | I 'm afraid I 've lost a few friends and challenged a few others . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got a confession to make , ’ said Eddy Russell finally , taking a swig from his pint of bitter and wiping the foam from his upper lip . |
| 21 | All down there and I had to get a it was that much I had to get a bucket of water , soapy water to scrub it down . |
| 22 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
| 23 | In 1979 I had built a small wind-up lectern for table-top use and followed that a couple of years later with a full-size floor-standing lectern that operates hydraulically . |
| 24 | well there you are then , yeah she goes to school does n't she , well I think it 's sad I mean giving a child a name like that |
| 25 | Good I 'm glad I 've got a an intelligent person . |
| 26 | ‘ Boy , am I ever glad I 've got a front-row seat for this . |
| 27 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 28 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's like I 've scored a hat-trick , ’ said Ruddock . |
| 30 | Now I 'm married I 've grown a little away from them , but I miss having them to talk to . |