Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah definitely see I 've started doing a newsletter for |
| 2 | cleani , co cos I got caught pulling a little girl 's pigtails . |
| 3 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 4 | I can speak with feeling about the frustrations I experienced trying to obtain a suitable movement here . |
| 5 | I planned an overnight stay at the Drumrunie Hotel , marked on the map and ten miles along the road , but when I tried to telephone to book a room , the operator told me that the hotel had recently been burnt down . |
| 6 | I rally do need a rest , James . |
| 7 | If it is possible , I want to continue to build a lasting basis for US-Soviet co-operation , for a more peaceful future for all mankind . |
| 8 | I want to start providing a complete office environment service — you know ; pot plants , palm-trees , the lot . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to learn to play a mandolin. , |
| 10 | Instead , I want to try to develop a further view of what it means to see criticism as a significant feature of higher education . |
| 11 | I appear to have strayed a long way from our original topic . |
| 12 | At this stage I stopped searching to have a little think . |
| 13 | you know that back door key , I seemed to remember picking a key up thinking it was the garage key |
| 14 | I seemed to have got a significantly better offer on this . |
| 15 | ALTHOUGH the Hungarian restaurants in which I ate did achieve a far higher standard than anything I encountered in Prague , almost all had in common a poor sense of presentation and good ingredients were often spoiled by ignorance and negligence . |
| 16 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 17 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 18 | Next day , as soon as I 'd finished giving a police statement about a drug addict who had threatened me and attempted to steal syringes and prescriptions , I went to see her in hospital . |
| 19 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 20 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 21 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 22 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 24 | The other day I came to work wearing a rather sharp tie and somebody said it looked as if it had been designed by somebody with ‘ special needs ’ . |
| 25 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 26 | Thus , the change masters I studied had to build a coalition in order to find the backers or ‘ power sources ’ to provide information , support , and resources for their projects . |
| 27 | I can legitimately offer most people that came here today er I happen to have rejected a couple . |
| 28 | But at the moment I seem to have done a lot of stuff with foam so |
| 29 | I seem to have swallowed a bit of thallium … ’ |
| 30 | I seem to have grown a trifle anxious . ’ |