Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er and in any , in any event there are a number of things I tend to miss altogether if I want to er keep to timetable which I and I , I 'm sure you 're , all the , the audience or group or whatever you like to call it that will welcome an extension of the talk . |
| 2 | I want to sit down before I go a rush this morning |
| 3 | She wanted to sit down but I said we 've just got to get out as soon as possible . |
| 4 | She wanted to sit down but I said we 've just got to get out as soon as possible . |
| 5 | I have to sit down cos I feel all dizzy . |
| 6 | She 's a clumsy clogs that 's why I wo n't let her walk around with the baby if she wants to cuddle her I tell her to sit down and I tell her not to move well she 's always tripping over her feet . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 8 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 9 | But the two struggles , for national liberation and against patriarchy , have to go together and I think that 's what went wrong in Ireland , when we got our pseudo independence . |
| 10 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |
| 11 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 12 | I , I did n't intend to come on but I think it 's one of the best er , Sunday mornings I 've had in years ! |
| 13 | Yes you do go on tell i what have I just been telling you then that you need to concentrate on that I think you should be concentrating on . |
| 14 | They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television . |
| 15 | Erm somehow or other it 's going to come along and I think most people 's thinkings are that it will be shown as a tax item on the ticket as are the taxes in other countries |
| 16 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 17 | Then I heard a voice call me to come in so I turned the door knob and entered . |
| 18 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 19 | yeah , aha , cos you have to concentrate constantly and I think it really is a lot of work involved in it |
| 20 | I 'll try to slip over if I get a spare minute . |
| 21 | It 's good for me to come away because I smoke fewer . |
| 22 | I have a lot of ideas to work through before I come out predicting the future . ’ |
| 23 | I want to know exactly where I stand . |
| 24 | The polyps began to disappear shortly after I introduced some large blue mushroom polyps which were growing on a piece of dead coral . |
| 25 | Erm , I went on a diet last year , to one of these clubs and , within record time got to the weight I was supposed to be , calorie counting and then I had to come off and I found for weeks after feelings of terrible guilt if I ate |
| 26 | It was just a reflex — I knew it had to come off and I did n't want them all fussing about it . |
| 27 | Well that 's interesting because yes we have we have discussed that and I do n't know whether the er the clerk wants to comment further but I think that is absolutely right and and if that could be taken further it would be of very positive benefit to you know the car parking problem for those people who want to shop on King Street and have difficulties in find a car parking space . |
| 28 | I used to have a load of homework to take home with me because I had to catch up but I did n't used to mind that . |
| 29 | I 'll have to catch up when I get back . |
| 30 | and then I was trying to come out and I started to pull out into a gap and Brian said oh know , do n't pull out I said oh okay , he said the thing is your fairly tight so your gon na have to come out slowly so you need a bigger gap than otherwise . |