Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun pl] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Bedelia and I were trying to watch Brookside , but it was an impossible mix , like tripe and onions with Bolognese sauce , so when Otley went down to the pub to see the lads I strolled down to the villa . |
| 2 | And there was nothing to connect the nights I shared with Jean-Claude with the afternoons I spent with Émile . |
| 3 | We come therefore to synthesise the ideas I had tried to put over in the preceding chapters . |
| 4 | I was lucky in that I did n't even have to know the women I worshipped , which opened the field up somewhat — I was happy to admire from afar . |
| 5 | Course manager Jack Bennett said : ‘ The going could be described as choppy , and if anyone wants to know the prospects I suggest they contact the coastguard ! ’ |
| 6 | After I 'd done that I made up some new bombs to replace the ones I 'd used the day before , and a few extra besides . |
| 7 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 8 | ‘ First thing I must do is to sell the emeralds I inherited from my mother , they will bring me in enough to buy in leather and begin to trade again . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't want to detail the mistakes I made and quite clearly I have done things quite differently the second time around — otherwise , I 'd probably have been out of a job again at Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 10 | We 've attempted , Chairer , to assess this proposal and then to set a criteria I think it 's important for members to understand that currently there is a consortium that er , is in operation , fully operational that is carrying out the tasks erm , that are identified in the consultation document mainly erm the consultation document itself does erm show exactly what the health authority is doing erm , the proposal now before you is to extend that erm to one merged unit of health authority with one executive board erm based with three local health clinics erm , to provide the service . |
| 11 | I have no right to expect the things I ask — even a kind word … ‘ |
| 12 | I 'm going to play the parts I like again . |
| 13 | In this series I have been introducing twentieth-century martyrs to illustrate the points I have been making . |
| 14 | It will be convenient to mark the distinctions I have been drawing by means of certain semiotic terms . |
| 15 | You never liked to do the jobs I say because they 're always pooey jobs |
| 16 | Are you going to dispute the fees I charge ? |
| 17 | Well when you when you understand er when you get to understand the products I mean there 's there all our six companies are represented over there er Maggie |
| 18 | They will even try to understand the words I have spent so long in writing . |
| 19 | Before proceeding further it may be useful to summarise the conclusions I have so far reached . |
| 20 | Insp Best said : ‘ I have come here with a very open mind but what I want to do is to develop the skills I have already and I am hoping it will give me more confidence . |
| 21 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |
| 22 | In September , after three years in New Zealand , I had the opportunity to spend one month back in Britain and was able to review the changes I had heard previewed in March 1989 . |
| 23 | So I said oh well , I said er if you we really want to get the nitty-gritties I said you know we did n't receive a Christmas card from you I said but we sent them to you . |
| 24 | Erm so , so really what er although when you came to summarize the needs I 've actually put good but too technical because we all knew what you were getting at but erm but to actually be doing that but not know at what point he needs to stop at or wants to stop it , you did n't know erm the pension that he wanted and you did n't know at what age he wanted to retire at that point you know , you , you had n't got any of those facts from him , you know |
| 25 | When I go to take the stamps I have collected , I will take the parcel of toys and goodies with me . |
| 26 | I tried to muster the arguments I 'd arrived at with Brian nearly four years earlier , in the autumn of 1986 , after having heard Jacobsen making a tape . |
| 27 | I naturally felt very good about it and proud of myself for the discipline I had shown during the winter in getting down to the work necessary to achieve the successes I had obtained . |
| 28 | erm The reason why we moved the amendment on this is er Jim been and that has , we started to query the figures I did n't get involved in the all this week and th people like Jim , David loads of my attention and the whole er exercise was a fraud they 're all bum figures and when I checked , the figures I have checked here are done by a senior officer when I showed 'im what stuff was being wrong . |
| 29 | To make the roses I arranged five petals in an overlapping circle , placed three petals on top of them and then finally positioned the rose centre in the middle . |
| 30 | Of course , I do n't expect all the little people reading it to attain the heights I have — and I mean , literally , the heights . |