Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I intend to give it a really good go , because I have the opportunity this year which I did n't have last season . ’ |
| 2 | When I 'm not working , I tend to give it a break from putting anything on it . |
| 3 | I tend to do it the weekend before the month starts . |
| 4 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 5 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 6 | I want to give it a bit of a rest now and I 'm trying to leave it as long as possible before I have it permed again . |
| 7 | I want to take it a step further and say , do n't behave like that , you idiots — it 's destroying people 's lives . ’ |
| 8 | But I do n't really want to compete in that world ; I want to do it a bit differently , something a bit more personal . |
| 9 | I 'm doing it tomorrow cos I want to leave it a little bit |
| 10 | I started paying for this myself two years ago — and I want to keep it a secret from him — but now I find I ca n't continue the payments . |
| 11 | What happens if he says well I want to alter it a little bit ? |
| 12 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 13 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 14 | ‘ That means I get to do it the way I think best . ’ |
| 15 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 16 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 17 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 18 | When I decide to call it a day , they 'll stop too . ’ |
| 19 | The Appendix needs another eight feet to be climbable , so I decide to leave it a week . |
| 20 | Because I started doing it a long time ago |
| 21 | I try to keep it the same time . |
| 22 | ‘ I try to make it a therapeutic education process for the abductees as well . |
| 23 | When I smile at her , I try to make it a fatherly smile . |
| 24 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 25 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 26 | Firstly chairman , er er , a comment about the district auditor , I do find it a little perverse , that in fact on the last subject when we were talking about small schools , he does n't take into account any other erm , item than the financial argument . |
| 27 | I do find it a bit of a you know I enjoy my game of darts , I enjoy handicraft and I 'm quite willing to , to it all , I shall see my back bedroom with all that stuff in it , God knows what , erm and get their tea and biscuits , but I 've got a little committee as well that help me . |
| 28 | I could n't fault the descriptions , although I did find it a little irritating to be several paragraphs into each section before the actual route of ascent was revealed . |
| 29 | Erm , having been told that the County Council were running the meeting , I did find it a little difficult to chair , but I do think that we 've come out of it with some constructive ideas . |
| 30 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |