Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] i [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle !
2 We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft .
3 During the early months of the season I catch my breath a bit , but the body is wonderfully adaptable and I do manage to reach parts of the loch others never cover .
4 We were very fortunate but I do remember the guns used to go off and I , when my so my son was born the , the guns were going off all the time from the castle .
5 ‘ It is all very sad but I do wish Kevin and the club success .
6 On the Quakers ' goal of the season so far , he said : ‘ I ca n't remember a lot about the build up , but the ball sort of bounced just right and I let fly .
7 Paragraph three , the action plan , er well it will guide itself evidence this , the statements made under the action plan , from section three of the report will guide our activities over the next three years and of course paragraph four performance the critical success factors , by the seven criteria we will be judged in the highway service and each one is a challenge in its own right and I do hope to receive in order to carry out these er , these er promises in fact , that erm , I 'd be given the relevant level of financial staff and resources
8 ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end .
9 He 'll be very quick and I do regret that he 's not here .
10 Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train …
11 I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live .
12 I work amongst the elderly and I do know that they are very shy about telling people just how poor they are .
13 I know you are very busy but I do hope you can help in this way .
14 I 'm 30 , and I would n't go rushing into anything unexpected but I do think a great deal about this . ’
15 I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism .
16 The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet .
17 ’ Luckily , the three bum-bag winners were not aquatically inclined but I do hope software houses show a little more consideration in future .
18 It 's wonderful but I do like the educational games preferably to the fun games
19 Sometimes I 'm rather greedy and I do eat more than I should , and then you pay for it in the end .
20 If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side .
21 unnamed that is not true and I do agree with Mr that when we make a decision to close some homes that they should be named to avoid the terrible indecision which exists at the moment .
22 I do n't think that 's strictly true but I do think that the discussion we 've heard so far er has fully justified erm the the raising of some fundamental questions about the the the the method of projections .
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