Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see what I eat means one thing , but I eat what I see means something very different . ’ |
| 2 | I intend doing great things tonight … great things . |
| 3 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 4 | But I tried to keep one thing — the foot — in focus throughout , because it seemed to be moving slowest . ’ |
| 5 | I 've gone off him since I met Tony but we do share a love of mother earth and I want to see this thing through . |
| 6 | I want to create beautiful things — and I know I could . ’ |
| 7 | Okay this is the fourth in our series and the second on the presidency and I want to do two things in this lecture . |
| 8 | try it again and I want to do two things for the rest of the morning . |
| 9 | I want to do this thing as well as it can be done , and with as few deaths as we can manage . |
| 10 | I want to get one thing straight before this conversation finally goes down the drain and before he orders liqueurs . ’ |
| 11 | The way he went on looking at her made her flesh heat , and she took a second or two to ensure that her voice would emerge steadily before saying , ‘ I want to make one thing absolutely crystal-clear , Luke . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Howard Baker , ’ says Bill Mishkin , ‘ I want to make this thing . |
| 13 | I want to know two things from you . |
| 14 | No we did n't because I had bought various things , I like antiques so does my husband , I 'd bought various things while he was away in this erm , the card table and er , I had a new place of stuff , er but since we 've been , but we had odd chairs did n't we ? |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't say I 'd got any thing , but — |
| 16 | Of course , I 'd overlooked one thing … ’ |
| 17 | As I said I 'll be talking about this in the next couple of weeks in the lectures and I hope to cover various things we did n't have time to touch on . |
| 18 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 19 | But I like learning new things and seeing new places , so one day who knows what I might do ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I like to do other things . |
| 21 | I like to try new things |
| 22 | Take Ian Woosnam , who , if I turn my notebook back a week , I find saying such things as : ‘ I am not in the groove at all . |
| 23 | So she says er , do I have to go that thing tomorrow ? |
| 24 | See I have got some things for christmas . |
| 25 | You know , like I say , I try to do some things different , and then that do n't work sometimes cos I think well why am I doing 'em like that . |
| 26 | I must say I do miss that thing . |
| 27 | When taxed about her ‘ bossy ’ or ‘ headmistressy ’ role in the 1983 election she replied : ‘ Yes , I do believe certain things very strongly . |
| 28 | But I did write one thing at school , the school pantomime , which nobody wanted to be in anyway . |
| 29 | I had to mention one thing then , that if my children came home for Christmas , or for a holiday , or for a little visit , we should all have to squeeze up . |
| 30 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |