Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The box I built was basically a crate with a dividing wall and a piston inside . |
| 2 | The tackle and techniques I used were exactly the same as I use for pike in the UK . |
| 3 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 4 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 5 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 6 | And when I came ashore — I 'd been there a week — he gave me ten bob . |
| 7 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 8 | No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before . |
| 9 | Of course , the street of which I speak is merely the ten or so blocks that comprise the theatre district , and which , in the public imagination , has always been known as ‘ The Great White Way ’ . |
| 10 | I believe it may be the Bowes Moor Hotel now , which I hear is quite a large and important establishment and in a very good position on the main road to the M6 . |
| 11 | The main feature I believe is purely the product line-up . |
| 12 | As Ian Brown , of Lee Moor Farm in Northumberland , noted : ‘ A fact that saddened me lately came from a recent survey which suggested that the average family business — not just farms but all family businesses — lasts only 25 years , which I guess is only a generation . |
| 13 | Erm , can I ask you please to point out to anybody who is n't here , which I guess is quite a number of people , there 's probably six or seven people who 're not here , er that the test is in fact next Tuesday , that 's February the twenty second , is it ? |
| 14 | So I mean I think what we envisaged though was that the local publicity group erm would meet and see if the well first of all I suppose was there a , a necessity having seen what we 've got from national level er necessity to produce a kind of newsletter , a joint unison newsletter specific to Northumberland , that 's what the group was going to have a look at was n't it ? |
| 15 | The awe I felt was probably the first phase of hero-worship — the sort of thing some people call a crush . |
| 16 | Kinderszenen I felt was somehow a bit disappointing compared to the studied and elegiac reading of Schubert 's great B flat Sonata . |
| 17 | A few yards up the hill , on my left , was a turning which at first I thought was just the entrance to a field . |
| 18 | Try reading that and explaining the words of that , to somebody who has no knowledge of the Christian faith , I thought was quite a challenge . |
| 19 | Well that was another thing , one of the new first-aiders we 've got , erm did n't know where the accident book was and I thought was quite an important thing that would probably have been brought up |
| 20 | So that 's twenty two years go , and ecstasy , I think 's only the same thing reoccurring . |
| 21 | If I can just erm refer to our previous experience of er conversions which I think is probably a little peculiar given the nature of a seaside resorts . |
| 22 | Expand the brackets I think is probably the best thing . |
| 23 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 24 | Well I 'm not daunted I think , challenged I think is probably the word , but I think there is room in the market , I mean they have their Oxford English Dictionary say , which is one of their flagships you might say . |
| 25 | Erm , having looked at all that , I think what the issue really boils down to essentially is the willingness of the County Council and I suppose the panel , having heard what er the debate , to accept what I think is really a modest level of flexibility er er requested by the District Council . |
| 26 | Erm internment erm I think is always a very dangerous option , because it presupposes there is no political solution . |
| 27 | And I think the need to protect the landscape on a settlement which we propose erm of fourteen hundred dwellings and round about three thousand three hundred people , I think is quite a significant and important issue for for Greater York . |
| 28 | disappointed I think is more the , is the word rather than disillusioned is n't it ? |
| 29 | It 's just a more and more I I think was just a |
| 30 | Especially because mine was crying — I think the one I bathed was only a day-and-a-half old , so it was a bit scary . |