Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
| 2 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 3 | She gently reminded me that on being in the same room as a baby , the same borough , I became about as relaxed and spontaneous as any old member of the royal family being introduced to Lech Walesa . |
| 4 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
| 5 | Because erm Derek was looking for a supervisor and he said to me one day in a moment of desperation he said who can I make up ? |
| 6 | How do I make out contributions ? |
| 7 | I asked around about him as a player and they said he was ‘ rough and fearless ’ . ’ |
| 8 | And erm I asked around to see if anyone else was interested in doing the same kind of thing . |
| 9 | So I asked around , a word here and there in the sort of places where people hear things . |
| 10 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 11 | ‘ I asked around , and they were the only McMahons in Slane . |
| 12 | So when we were there in London I asked around several centers for rehabilitating women and I struck lucky . |
| 13 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 14 | I chip in . |
| 15 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
| 16 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 17 | ‘ As soon as I track down Carol , I 'm free . |
| 18 | I change out of my pyjamas into them to write |
| 19 | In Chapter 14 I sketch out the fundamentals of a structuralist theory of truth . |
| 20 | I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat . |
| 21 | I grin back . |
| 22 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 23 | –Darling , what am I blathering about ? |
| 24 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 25 | I doubled up , retching and heaving , feeling my guts contract like a balling fist inside me ; involuntary , alive , like a woman must feel with a kicking child . |
| 26 | ‘ I was up in Norwich when I doubled over in agony because the thing had moved inside me . |
| 27 | I doubled back and picked a spot to vault the fence , using a post as a grip . |
| 28 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 29 | . So to work out how much energy you 're using is , how quickly am I using up energy , well I 'm using it at a rate of ten kilowatts . |
| 30 | What do I want out of my working life ? |