Example sentences of "i [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I get recognised in the street . |
2 | ‘ And was it just coincidence that I get invited to the Flaxton dance , that I 'm seated next to him ? |
3 | I get pigeon-holed as the vulnerable bloke who 's crap at relationships and who 's always arguing with his dad . |
4 | I dare n't wear that nice fur coat that cousin Freda gave me in case I get bombed by the Animal Liberation Front . |
5 | Either I get hooked on the story or message to the exclusion of the drawings , or am arrested by the designs and can not be bothered with the balloons . |
6 | Ah , suppose I erase that cell there with range erase then I get rid of the number of course , but the cell , the cell remains formatted , you can still see the F two at the top grid references . |
7 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
8 | Now that the good weather has arrived I feel trapped in the shop , and I want more time to enjoy other interests such as cricket and walking . |
9 | 4.15PM After the hundredth charred building , I become numbed to the destruction and find myself only stopping to photograph the ironic and unusual : a rental outlet called ‘ Hot Videos ’ up in flames , men carrying couches and lamps through the shattered window of a furniture store next to a large inviting sign : ‘ Come in for real bargains ’ . |
10 | With courage grasped I begin to climb , tentatively at first , until nerves evaporate as I become absorbed in the climbing . |
11 | I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood . |
12 | I took down the battered , broken-spined A-Z I keep taped to the driver 's sun visor and pretended to be looking something up . |
13 | I stopped a hundred yards down the road and checked my bearings in the paperback A-Z I keep taped behind the sun visor . |
14 | It 's even a lot of money I think compared with the what is it , one point four million pounds that is transferred th through the youth and community budget into the Highfields area and that itself is a lot of money when people recognise that we are actually spending the equivalent of one tenth of the total county youth and community budget in one area of the county . |
15 | I think we should er , minute our approval of thanks to the Tayman team , they are , I think accepted as the most efficient and the best training managers in the County , and it 's nothing we do , it 's everything that the officers and the staff do . |
16 | And she was supposed to be a witch right enough and the men from all round about here er had a meeting about it and they I think met at the barn of Dale . |
17 | Just I 've run to the toilet . |
18 | I 've enquired into the question of coconuts , and they can be bought wholesale . ’ |
19 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
20 | I 've enquired of the regular users of this service and they tell me that on the following days the advertised journeys did not take place : |
21 | They say Wednesday erm activity at Latton Bush , thanks for sending that information , I 've sent off the letter and said that we will take a stall and if anyone 's free to help |
22 | I 've sent for the captain . |
23 | I 've sent for the priest . |
24 | I 've sent for the lad from the Upton manor , as I told Radulfus I would , and before Compline he 'll be here , and the truth will surely be out . |
25 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
26 | I 've said on the note that tea will be available , I must admit I did n't check that , but I will do that . |
27 | But I come back to what I 've said at the outset Mr Mayor in conclusion . |
28 | But to be quite truthful as I 've said to the boys , when I 'm away all this is lost . |
29 | You ca n't stop that , I mean that 's what I 've said to the Press , you do n't want him to go abroad because I think everybody 's going to miss that , because there are are n't too many that can do things like he does . |
30 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |