Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 2 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 3 | and you 'll you know it does it itself you just , you , with the computer you just say well I had four pounds and I spent a pound on that and two pound on this thirty pence on that and it goes pow does it by magic . |
| 4 | Get a few nibbles sort of like couple of days before like er cos if Kim comes I 'll do like I did last year , just a little buffet tea . |
| 5 | But first , but when we first came here I spent three hours on a Sunday morning , and I only did that area where you play football . |
| 6 | An and everything they be be architects or something , you 're gon na pick one who 's who who said well I did that building at London Airport or something like that . |
| 7 | Like I I see it done today I think that sort of thing , you used to stand in a corner . |
| 8 | all them eggs you know , when we went to Alec , when they were selling these trays of eggs , er , we went there with Alec , so I said I 'll have one like , and they were really fresh , but when I got home I got that thing of , from Kwiksave , I got the whole packet , big packet |
| 9 | As I was reviewing the material to be used here I had certain issues in my mind which concern the structure and meaning of the support given , based upon the ideas developed by anthropologists and sociologists who have studied kinship in Britain and elsewhere . |
| 10 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 11 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 12 | Secondly of course there are opportunities and limitations to your , the resources that you have and I 've mentioned resources before , they can be economic , military , your education system erm you know at the moment the government 's expanding higher education , going up , well we 've , we 've touched already I think thirty percent now in higher education one of the reasons for that is not just to , for self-fulfilment for those who are erm involved in higher education as I 'm sure you 're all self-fulfilling yourself here today , it 's because of what is perceived to be a national need for a highly educated workforce . |
| 13 | And when I saw Bob 's name on there I thought well I know one face at least . |
| 14 | Thought well I had this fire on so , I gets up to go through and make myself a l you know a drink before going to bed and I put my 'jamas on and dressing gown . |
| 15 | I thought afterwards I bet that tape would run out when you 're talking to and wo n't be able to turn it over . |
| 16 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 17 | But he said they 've just I mean this year the whole orchard . |