Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own tears , hot noisy gulping that burns and blotches , that neither you nor any of the women in the group is going to offer to staunch , tears of anger for myself and all of us , anger with the women in the group for making me face up to what I 'm doing to you , for making me want to take out those dusty bundles of old stories from where they 've lain for my lifetime tied up with pink ribbon and reread them and throw them away . |
| 2 | My mother made me promise to have only one glass — and I 've had two already . " |
| 3 | So I 've always tried to eliminate it and Ibanez has worked with me to try to get as little flutter in that vibrato bar as possible by using certain springs or arrangements of springs . |
| 4 | So could I presume to make just two or three points about the current ills of the NHS ? |
| 5 | you see if you can get a certain amount of money yes I mean take out two thousand or something |
| 6 | I mean does n't that |
| 7 | would appeal to children , I mean knowing how sophisticated things are today , it 's just a simple glove puppet and yet kids are just as interested in them |
| 8 | the odds will be such that it 's not worth doing for a , a place , but if you 're betting , I mean forget how much I got last year , but I think it came in about thirty to one or something . |
| 9 | Oh they do , yes they do like I mean going back forty seven round there well perhaps you know , forty six were n't it ? |
| 10 | Indeed , I intend to remain very close to the development of the trust and to its inception on 1 April to ensure that all that has been promised will be delivered . |
| 11 | I shall be writing the notes on my experiments , of course , and I intend to spend as much time as I can refuting Carslake 's idiotic principle . |
| 12 | It made me feel great — so great that I agreed to do yet another lecture , this time in front of a full fourth-year assembly — that 's over a hundred kids ! |
| 13 | I failed to see how tolerant he was of me , with my callow questioning of everything : I flinched under the coldness of his eye , yet did not perceive his isolation . |
| 14 | He thinks oh I 'm allowed I got chucked out last time . |
| 15 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 16 | I forgot , I got carried away sorry about that missus |
| 17 | I am wondering , I suppose , although I hate to sound impossibly naïve , whether there might be anything in your religion , in your beliefs , or your understanding of belief , that might help me with this , that might help me to come to terms with it ? |
| 18 | Broadstone , God I hate filling in these stupid forms . |
| 19 | I hate to think where this particular gag might end up … . |
| 20 | I hate to think how many women he has assaulted since then . ’ |
| 21 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 22 | Oh God I hate having so much shit in my pocket ! |
| 23 | I 've got so much bloody , I hate having so much stuff in my pockets it really really does annoy me . |
| 24 | I tend to snap up good second-hand equipment if I have the opportunity , and obtain new items by approaching stand-holders at the big shows 5 minutes before packing-up time on Sunday . |
| 25 | If I 've been doing alot which is tiring and it 's cold , I tend to become more run-down and off-colour . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't play in the five-asides but then I did n't play in them much before because I tend to get too argumentative and carried away sometimes . ’ |
| 27 | For example , you could say , ‘ I find I tend to get very involved in my work ’ , or ‘ I like to see things move along quickly ’ . |
| 28 | When we got home , I tried to say as much , but Father would n't listen to me . |
| 29 | I tried to say perhaps this was not possible as we did not know what was outside the car park , walls , buildings . |
| 30 | I tried to sound as matter-of-fact about it as possible , and she picked up my tone . |