Example sentences of "i [vb base] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean getting a job on the land ? ’ |
| 2 | well there you are then , yeah she goes to school does n't she , well I think it 's sad I mean giving a child a name like that |
| 3 | I mean servicing a school regardless of how many people there are is no no but it |
| 4 | I mean doing a couple of tables probably wo n't be that hard work cos it just be a case of a list of averages or something . |
| 5 | ‘ I intend posting a guard outside this door . ’ |
| 6 | Meanwhile I propose paying a visit to the offices of the Wiener Tageblatt . ’ |
| 7 | On one occasion I recall having a rabbit sealed in a single hole . |
| 8 | I recall imitating a stunt performed by the obscure Buffalo Bill Jnr in a Poverty Kow serial , when he outwitted his pursuers by swinging at speed from saddle into tree . |
| 9 | As I was only 12 it scared me but now I know seeing a land mark just helps find the airstrip . |
| 10 | I remember seeing a cable and I thought it was a telephone cable so I was n't worried . |
| 11 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 12 | You see , and of course when I was at Cambridge , you see , and that was during the Second World War , well of course , you see , I remember seeing a plane because of course the station was a prime target |
| 13 | I remember seeing a delegation from the tenants at that time . |
| 14 | I remember writing a feature for the ’ Anglers Mail ’ around 1974 entitled ’ The Night I Missed One Hundred and Sixty-seven Bites ’ . |
| 15 | I remember picking a Rallye 100ST at Dunkeswell for £12 an hour in the late 1970s , and my flying now costs me a little more than twice that per hour fifteen years later . |
| 16 | I remember teaching a class of social workers who had once received some lectures on Freud . |
| 17 | I remember buying a record by Bernard Cribbins and one by the Turtles in a Battle Of The Bands series . |
| 18 | I remember experiencing a feeling of tremendous excitement , not thinking for a moment of the implications of war , of bombing , of deaths , of families parted from their sons , husbands and brothers . |
| 19 | ‘ The Liver Birds had just started on television , ’ recalled Allen , ‘ and I remember reading a bit in the paper saying there were very few situation comedies written for women , with women in the lead roles . |
| 20 | ‘ I remember reading a passage about young people 's declining morality and lack of respect for their parents and elders — it was written by a seventh-century monk , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I remember taking a girl out once and I really did fancy her — oh , she was beautiful . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a fantastic experience , and I remember taking a photograph of Harold Abrahams at the start of the 100 metres race that he won . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember getting a clockwork donkey for my third birthday . ’ |
| 24 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 25 | I remember leaving a ledge to abseil down Scafell 's East Buttress once only to realise I was falling out of control ; I had forgotten to clip my figure of eight descendeur into my harness . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember watching a cricket match ’ , he says , ‘ and thinking it was almost like some ritual dance , particularly the bowling : watching the guy contort and twist . ’ |
| 27 | I remember playing a concert with him at Portsmouth Town Hall , and he played one of the most moving versions of ‘ Stardust ’ that I ever heard . |
| 28 | I remember feeling a bit disappointed as I went to school on the morning of my birthday — I 'd rather have stayed home and finished the aviary . |
| 29 | Last time we had a I remember having a row about this before . |
| 30 | But I remember having a day off from teaching at the time , probably because of the various strikes , and watching the lunchtime television . |