Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some days later , a farmer phoned to discover whether I knew the meeting times and places of witches in his area . |
| 2 | I am beginning to wonder if I inhabit the same planet . |
| 3 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 4 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 5 | It is that is a paper from somebody , I know not who , but can I just explain , if we 're having one franchise passenger service next year , which is pretty well all you can do because you do need to have that record , track record , the business operating as a separate business before bidders can bid , if we 're having one next year , to suggest as I think the quote was , that the that would cost about one point two billion pounds is ridiculous , it 's ridiculous , a single , a single , |
| 6 | ‘ I must go , clearly , because I can not defend a policy I candidly dislike , ’ he wrote on 4 November , having already told Sir Walter Monckton , the Paymaster General , on 1 November that ‘ I felt I might have to resign as I thought the policy bad and disastrous . ’ |
| 7 | There 's lots of things I would n't like to do if I ruled the world how about you ? |
| 8 | Brought up well as I was actually born in the village and that 's where I 've come home to roost when I left the army . |
| 9 | All I 've got to do when I give the tape back is |
| 10 | ‘ You will have to wait till I get the consent of the solicitor , at least . ’ |
| 11 | Cocktails and snacks borne on silver platters by ship 's officers , and a very grand piano on which to lean while I absorbed the experience of a lifetime . |
| 12 | I invite you all to come to my house to see her , and to judge whether I had the right to ask this innocent young girl to marry me . |
| 13 | I tried not to watch as I fitted the frame together and balanced the unfinished top on it . |
| 14 | I sidled into the room , scarcely daring to breathe lest I harm the recording . |
| 15 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 16 | But that does n't apa , but what they look like is not going to affect whether I support the Ministerial Committee or not . |
| 17 | Professor Lock would erm have something to say if I raised the final one so I sha n't do that . |
| 18 | It 's impossible to say if I knew the attackers . |
| 19 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 20 | My buttocks began to freeze and I was wondering whether to return when I heard the clop of the horse 's hooves and glimpsed Sir John riding vigorously by . |
| 21 | I am unaware that any of this is going to happen as I enter the hotel lobby on my way to dinner . |
| 22 | Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses . |
| 23 | Right , now there 's one , we 've made a decision to defer consideration of this report , but because both Mr and Mrs had indicated they wanted to speak before I took the vote , I 'm prepared to take the speeches , but I do n't know that there 's very much of a motion that can legally be moved . |
| 24 | I had one call to make before I hit the road . |