Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 3 | Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) . |
| 4 | Over his shoulder I 'd seen a pair of beat coppers walking by . |
| 5 | There 's a poster up in erm , and these two people that are drug addicts , and said like , did you see that I 'd drawn a pair of ears on one of them , turned around and seen Shane and he 's like his mate was the other one , were n't it ? |
| 6 | I would n't have known myself , but I happen to have a pair of ears in that establishment . |
| 7 | It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded . |
| 8 | Unknown to Dana , I began writing a series of free-verse poems about the pictures . |
| 9 | I began to have a series of nightmares where I experienced painful sensations up and down my spine , weird chanting and a feeling of terror . |
| 10 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 11 | ‘ All right , ’ said the woman , ‘ and should I try dangling a fish there to get the cat out , too ? ’ |
| 12 | I managed to find a pair of school shoes for twenty pounds which is quite cheap compared to some of the other prices . |
| 13 | Cos I thought needs a pair of decent jeans . |
| 14 | Ooh I do like a fish . |
| 15 | I mean at least I do get a pair of smart shoes and they were lovely those shoes all day |
| 16 | ‘ I do have a pair of jeans , ’ Katherine said bleakly . |
| 17 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 18 | When I emerged I had to borrow a pair of chef 's trousers , ’ he admitted . |
| 19 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 20 | As we walked the river path towards Dent a pair of curlews rose in alarm close by a pool where one autumn morning I had watched a heron fishing . |
| 21 | Got a got a pair of twos there ee by heck ! for four and a pair is six well I think I 'll have I 'm afraid two eights , two o , two eights , two tens and then nine did n't ask for that but I had to throw a pair of twos away for that and go in there you go . |
| 22 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 23 | Oh I 've lost a quid ! |
| 24 | I saw a pair of shoes , if my grey shoes do n't go with this dress , I 've seen a pair of shoes that I like . |
| 25 | I 've seen a heron standing on one leg , and I particularly liked the owls which used to shout from our trees to their friends across the valley at Clover Lodge . |
| 26 | In the past six months I 've worn a pair for a variety of purposes , from rock climbing to trekking , from gardening to pubbing and they 're still presentable . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've created a series of paths that lead through and around , and there will be mass under-planting of natural flowers — bluebells , snowdrops , that sort of thing . |
| 28 | I 've had a series of producers , all with very different personalities . |
| 29 | Therapist Julia Blackburn 's heart sinks when someone visits her at The Maidenhead Natural Therapy Clinic and says , ‘ I 've tried a grapefruit diet , a pineapple diet , a very low-calorie diet , and now I 've come to see whether hypnotherapy might work . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got a £10 bet on a Conservative majority , ’ said Sir Charles Powell , formerly Mrs Thatcher 's private secretary . |