Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I asked to go straight back . |
| 2 | I mean to take drastic action in this matter , I assure you . |
| 3 | Quite early on " I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle " , he wrote later , " and regarded it as a question of time , place , and circumstance … " |
| 4 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | I tend to buy nice material and see what will come out of it . |
| 6 | There were n't many people sitting near us , so I tried to make polite conversation , but he was n't having any . |
| 7 | Yes , well when I say stand still budget I mean a stand still on the basis of of saying that there will be no increase in incoming work . |
| 8 | I propose to consult local authority associations on that very point . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a world market of over £100 million a year in clean technology and I want to see British industry winning a much larger share of it . ’ |
| 10 | Third I want to tackle real need . |
| 11 | If there are any factual errors ( or , more likely , lies ) I want to take careful note of them , and correct the record later . |
| 12 | Mr Henderson has had negotiations with the council and private enterprise to discuss the super-stadium project , but he promised : ‘ I want to retain Ayresome Park because I understand the sense of history , the relationship the fans have with Ayresome Park . |
| 13 | However , I want to leave sufficient time for the Minister to answer . |
| 14 | I want to eat red meat with you . |
| 15 | Initially , I want to consider environmental impact assessments from a slightly different perspective from that which has been referred to so far . |
| 16 | The thing is , if I 'm going to start my own business one day , I want to get good experience working for the best … so I do n't care whether I 'm answering the phone or working in their library . |
| 17 | I want to pay particular attention to present practice and to what may perhaps happen in the years ahead . |
| 18 | Erm but after you 're confirmed , you will have er you know the ability to say , yes Lord I want to have wisdom , I want to have right judgment . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to help Celtic win honours and to be part of the club 's history . |
| 20 | ‘ After I stopped eating factory-farmed meat I now can not stand the feeling of eating flesh . |
| 21 | He made me play cards , I 'd played ordinary auction bridge at that time . |
| 22 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 23 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 24 | First of all Mum thought I was anorexic and then she thought I 'd got thyroid trouble . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd started classical guitar lessons , too , as that was the proviso for getting my original guitar . |
| 26 | Ever since the journey to this place seventeen months ago I 'd had occasional panic attacks at the thought of being ‘ mummified ’ and stuck in the base of a truck again . |
| 27 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 28 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 29 | I hope to visit relevant training programmes in the Philippines and Southern Africa , where possible participating as a trainee , in order to learn from the experience of those who have been undertaking this work for some years ; and to identify elements in the training processes which may be transferrable or adaptable to a UK situation . |
| 30 | I hope to establish fat oppression and looksism as areas of concern for feminism . |