Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er he goes , aha the bloke hitting his his brother hits him , and the holograph standing behind him and he 's going he 's going , it 's okay , it 's okay , I 've got you , I 've got , like this and you see him fall backwards , straight through the fucking body and he goes sorry I do n't got you ! |
| 2 | What do you think specific I give up you started , you started so you can finish . |
| 3 | A gang of girls I met in Coventry hanging around with some boys who , like them , were unemployed , said that when they were younger they did a bit of vandalising : " When I got pissed I smashed the windows of posh houses , " said one of them . |
| 4 | I 'll stay high I think . |
| 5 | When nylon underwear first became popular I produced similar fireworks and had to earth myself to radiators when nobody was looking . |
| 6 | something goes wrong I end up backfiring on me or something . |
| 7 | I 've stopped smoking I have like . |
| 8 | In my teens , I remember , the usual result ( and when I say usual I mean about twice a week ) was sudden , fulminating appendicitis . |
| 9 | Having been deemed ignorant I dropped out of many of these discussions , finding them too oppressive . |
| 10 | And when I say stopped I mean stopped . |
| 11 | Although a couple of the other demonstrators also looked promising I have been unable to take them any further because of financial constraints . |
| 12 | brown tiles and it was brown tiles all in that room and of course we could n't , we had started a business and all the money had gone into the business and we could n't afford to , to start carpeting , it was impossible , so , but that room really looked superb I think , I had huge rugs , you know , one in front of the fireplace and another one this end and the other end in colour , in colours , and there really , it really looked nice and the floor was polished up to the nines , you know , er right through here all polished all the same colour |
| 13 | Mm , they 're alright , they will do when they 're , when they grow big I think they 're excellent actually |
| 14 | Erm we 'd just buy new I suppose . |
| 15 | and there is so many people smoking where , in the pubs that I go to and I do n't have it cos I think it looks disgusting I come here and because we go around in like threes and it 's , you know , |
| 16 | No cos it , it was straightforward I think and does n't look to be too much wasted , you , you know they leave all that so I 'll just it a quick , a quick , really a very quick hoover but I ca n't get to the bit where the waste carpet is but er yes it looks nice I think . |
| 17 | That 's right it was like a huge I say huge I do n't know how many gallons it would hold , it was a fair copper . |
| 18 | On the face of it , this was an illogical statement , but by becoming anorexic I refuted logic . |
| 19 | And then there was always a cradle with a little one in you know in between I do n't how we lived honest I do n't . |
| 20 | When it got dark I drove over and parked around the corner . |
| 21 | The wheelbarrow had been stuck , almost to the axle , but when it came free I toppled with it . |
| 22 | ‘ When the lease on the Old Bells came free I grabbed it , thinking whatever happened we 'd have a job and home . ’ |
| 23 | ’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change . |
| 24 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 25 | It seemed incredible I had n't thought of that before — normally I was constantly aware of his proximity through the thin dividing wall . |
| 26 | But now more and more maybe cos they 're taking early retirement or getting made redundant I mean it 's the fellers is n't it ? |
| 27 | As I was permanently hungry , he used to make enormous treacle puddings — it was the first time in my life I had heard of such a dish — and always made sure I got a big helping . |
| 28 | And er I was n't eating right because I just did n't feel hungry I did n't bother about food I just seemed to keep going and keep going . |
| 29 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 30 | He stood there with the filthy little bits of orange sauce on his so-clean clothes and looking sheepish I do n't want any lunch , I snapped at him . |