Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yes it is certainly fascinating to hear the views of , of members an and indeed it , it 's tempting to go on I think about or personal experience of floods , but this is not the time or the place I would suggest to do that erm strategic planning seems to me has been the venue for discussions with Southern Water Authority with the National Rivers Authority itself , we are the committee that tries to look many , many years ahead . |
| 2 | That was how I wanted it to be , but what made me ache was the knowledge that Jo could n't have all she wanted : to he the writer of stories , whose stories were her children , but heart-breakingly not to have Laurie . |
| 3 | I mean is a carbonate erm an alkali ? |
| 4 | What I Mean is the transfer of body weight to the shot . |
| 5 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 6 | and I said who 's that ? and he went oh god , shit we 're in the wrong tent and they went out and you can hear 'em I mean being a tent they 're laughing their head off for about half an hour |
| 7 | I said no you see she 's she 's a perfectionist , I mean being a perfectionist being halfhearted erm , you ca n't help it sort of thing , I suppose that , you know |
| 8 | So , if I believe that we each have a number of incarnations , what do I think is the purpose of it all ? |
| 9 | Among those whose practice can be shown to conform to this approach , there can I think be no doubt that the most important , in contemporary social science , have been the historians of the Annales school . |
| 10 | The basic situation which I contemplate is a patient in hospital refusing all but nursing attendance , or the patient at home refusing all care , even if it means that he will be left alone . |
| 11 | Among those I met were the Duke of Wellington , who has his London home in part of beautiful Apsley House , which with all its treasures he presented to the nation some years ago ; Vicomte and Vicomtesse Bernard de la Giraudière , and Mr Richard Nicholson the Vice Chairman of Laurent-Perrier UK , and his charming wife ; Mr Malcolm Innes , Mrs Piffa Schroder , Mr John Grant of Rothiemurchus , the Hon. |
| 12 | Among the first people I met were the bridegroom 's uncle Mr Peter Stormonth-Darling , with his daughter Mrs Justin Cobb with her two-and-a-half year old daughter Zoë who was a bridesmaid . |
| 13 | The first friends I met were the bridegroom 's half-sister Lady Tana Focke , with Mr Paul Focke , and their two very attractive teenage daughters Diana Focke and Victoria Focke . |
| 14 | All I got is a ball of string and some bits of paper . |
| 15 | The manual actually fails to mention quite a lot and I only hope that the one I got is a prototype and not what the paying public will receive ! |
| 16 | ‘ What I got is an inarck … an inar … culate … |
| 17 | Mind yer , all I got was a load o' lip . |
| 18 | What I got was a group of men who ranged from those with a more developed line on women 's issues than mine to those who were frankly misogynistic , and a woman who went on record as saying that , in her opinion , feminism put women off being lesbians . |
| 19 | The next thing I got was an order for twenty of them . |
| 20 | I tried your mobile as well but I did n't think it would work up there in the mountains and sure enough all I got was the recording saying try again later . ’ |
| 21 | God , I love them all so much , I hate being the cause of their distress . |
| 22 | What was also disturbing was that I found being the centre of attention quite attractive . |
| 23 | There was never a dull moment and among the places I visited were the Statue of Liberty , Central Park , the World Trade Centre , the Empire State Building , Wall Street and Chinatown . |
| 24 | The second one I visited was the centre on Edgware Road . |
| 25 | Then the only defence left to him is to answer " No , what I say is the truth " . |
| 26 | And erm , the the Clerk was in a flat spin , because he had n't got a card , which said , I affirm that , what I say is the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth , and the recorder himself was was about |
| 27 | All I want 's a bit of cooperation . |
| 28 | ‘ But what I want is a bit of time to myself . |
| 29 | All I want is a chance to prove myself . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ What I want is a country of real opportunity where everyone is free to choose . |