Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked about local amnesties , I was told : ’ It is for chief officers of police to consider whether offering opportunities for disposing of offensive weapons would be a worthwhile crime prevention initiative in their own force area . ’ |
| 2 | I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes I asked about these stories . |
| 4 | I asked for 15 rehearsals for the Benvenuto Cellini in Geneva ( in February ) and both the orchestra manager and the intendant at the house thought I was crazy . |
| 5 | I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre . |
| 6 | I asked for some children to work with me . |
| 7 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 8 | And er so that 's er I stopped on six months , being an orderly , because I could n't go back into tailoring , obviously , because er it might have aggravated it all again . |
| 9 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 10 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 11 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 12 | My dearest love , I chatter about all sorts of odd news , when I really only want to tell you that my real self is in your keeping . |
| 13 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |
| 14 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 15 | How can I build on these achievements next time ? |
| 16 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 17 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 18 | I mean with ordinary ones |
| 19 | Well I do n't know about that , I mean with some schools it 'd be a good idea to get them away from it . |
| 20 | Well an an an and I , it seems to me that the , the er I mean you go , you go to the er to the M S Society and you find just about everybody there , you know , you find people who , who are in wheelchairs , you find people who are walking around , you find people who are er controlling their diet you find people who are obs s taking extreme dietary precautions , no , not precautions , no they are taking extreme care of their diet , er er I mean on gluten-free diets and you know what that means |
| 21 | " I mean about Apache Indians and all . " |
| 22 | I mean in other words we 'll now have a proper strategy the Vale of the White Horse , which was always an area of the county where the County Council services to the elderly was poorer than elsewhere . |
| 23 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 24 | I mean it 's , I mean er , we still consider , I mean in many ways it 's , it 's Breckland but particularly Norfolk we want to particularly their members we want to get , we want to get to , I mean er , you 'll need obviously great support authority District Council but er , er I will , I will consider that , but I do n't really think it 's necessary for that |
| 25 | I mean in some cases be left with the ward sister and I think in general that 's who they will nominate . |
| 26 | Mm I du n no what we get asked to do you know , I mean in some cases we can handle everything like pulling out bloody cables after other receive in that kind of thing |
| 27 | and i it was n't in all areas that the came back , I mean in some areas there was enough security but you would n't know which area was going to be secure . |
| 28 | I mean in some ways |
| 29 | I , I mean in some respects this , this , this is very good Mary . |
| 30 | I mean in some respects that 's almost an imposs an impossible task it 's simple impracticable . |