Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 2 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 3 | Can I make just a suggestion ? |
| 4 | I back away a bit , and kneel down . |
| 5 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
| 6 | We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team . |
| 7 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 8 | Cos I did ea , by Monday I felt sick and I eat quite a lot at the weekend which was good , but Tuesday I start at placement and we , although like we talk , we do n't have , like a , conversation we as well and there was n't really anything to record , saying yesterday to record and |
| 9 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 10 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
| 11 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's OK , Maggie , I got here a bit late as well , but they were waiting , you did n't run away did you , loves ? |
| 13 | ‘ I got quite a shock . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I got quite a surprise . |
| 15 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 16 | So I got quite a lot of old tools , really old ones |
| 17 | I attach hereto a copy of my DOS Directory plus contents of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and should appreciate your guidance in this respect . |
| 18 | I tried again a week later . |
| 19 | And I say over a year now difficulty . |
| 20 | I say virtually a spectator role , for the teacher is likely still to endow the pupils with a role label — ‘ I have a patient outside . |
| 21 | After about a month I rang and was told I 'd be hearing something soon , and when I did n't I phoned again a month or so later and was told the same . |
| 22 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 23 | I want both a doggy |
| 24 | ‘ I sense almost a vendetta in this town and I 'll never start another business in Northallerton under the heel of such a group . |
| 25 | Bit I learnt quite a lot in , from the back you know , in the terraced . |
| 26 | I came here a bit early this evening , and I did n't want to risk any of those clamps or fines or anything . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ When I came here a month ago , they did n't have any confidence . |
| 28 | At the next Scottish Liberal Party Council meeting I put forward a motion that Home Rule should be the principal aim and object of our policy and that in Scottish domestic matters all other issues should be considered in relation to it . |
| 29 | So at the SLP 's next annual conference I put forward a resolution that talks be opened with them with a view to supporting each other in seats where one or the other of us stood a chance of winning ; and to this end arranged a meeting between Jo Grimond and the SNP leader , Billy Wolfe . |
| 30 | ‘ I put together a syndicate of investors with my friends the Cheng family from Hong Kong , who took control . |