Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 2 | I do n't want it poured over my head from a bucket in a comic that only appeals to the most basic and obvious , nor do I want to read the photo-copied scribblings of an undergrown fifth-former . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean removing the obvious , stupid ways of doing things which grow up within a business . |
| 4 | I mean said the other day , Why do n't you pack up this stupid idea of picketing . |
| 5 | Like , you got , I mean put the other side of the . |
| 6 | I I I think erm a lot of teachers would now look back on those days with er a certain fondness now bearing in mind what 's what 's happened since and the the the succession of education secretaries we 've had since since then I mean had the only one in recent years who I would say has attempted a genuine dialogue with the teachers and tried to do something constructive is John McGregor . |
| 7 | By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … . |
| 8 | But it is n't enough to write well ( I mean choose the right words and so on ) to be a good writer . |
| 9 | [ I intend pursuing the other objectives this Autumn . ] |
| 10 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe , if the game was against Australia or New Zealand Alan Tait would have been preferred , but Mal Reilly is building for the future and now I have my chance I intend to make the most of it . ’ |
| 12 | I intend to uncover the old boy system where everybody covers up when cases like this arise . |
| 13 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 14 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
| 15 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 16 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 17 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 18 | I got to see the famous ‘ railway station ’ — which was a prop , a facade . |
| 19 | I got fed the wrong line . ’ |
| 20 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 21 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 22 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 23 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 24 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |
| 25 | I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones . |
| 26 | ‘ I hate to bring the real world into this , but is your room-mate going to pop in at any second ? ’ |
| 27 | I tend to take the beautiful surroundings of the mikva for granted ; in my local mikva , the private bathrooms which lead in total privacy into one of two mikvas are beautifully decorated and colour co-ordinated , centrally heated with modern power-showers and flouncy floral curtains all around . |
| 28 | If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade . |
| 29 | Erm why would I need to use the square root of minus one ? |
| 30 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |