Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But little by little , as I became absorbed into rural life , I came to enjoy my ‘ inconveniences ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 3 | I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken . |
| 4 | Do I want to teach after all ? ’ and this is because of what the others say to you , the more experienced teachers . |
| 5 | Do I want to go to this wonderful balloon festival ? |
| 6 | I made do with peripheral vision , which , after all , is the next best thing . |
| 7 | I did n't fancy his biscuits , so I made do with some toast . |
| 8 | we 're not a society yet , so I mean thinking about that , we have tried to become a society before . |
| 9 | And if we have n't got a full slate well I mean looking at that list we 're doing quite well . |
| 10 | I mean compared with other |
| 11 | I mean went to this kind of thing , it was |
| 12 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
| 13 | revolution has already happened , I mean according to this the , the landlord 's political power 's been smashed |
| 14 | It 's difficult to say well I mean suppose with all of these , the the light the sunlight is going |
| 15 | But I said it 's always the way when you think it 's a good examiner she or she , she gives you bad results and when it 's a bad , think oh an awful examiner I mean look at that one where you got that really tough examiner and you and Jenny was the only two that got honours . |
| 16 | I mean look at that woman doing her er from the from the church . |
| 17 | See I mean look at that . |
| 18 | I mean look at this on here |
| 19 | I mean look at this |
| 20 | I mean look at those boxes . |
| 21 | I mean look at those boxes . |
| 22 | I mean look at those , they 're gorgeous are n't |
| 23 | Yeah except look at the pair of you look at the pair of you singing these I mean look at these songs you 're singing this is ridiculous . |
| 24 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
| 25 | By ‘ symphonically conceived ’ I mean relying on large-scale musical argument rather than on imagery derived from what the Germans call ‘ applied music ’ , angewandte Musik ( for stage , film , circus , etc. ) and by extension , not dependent on overt reference to contemporary events . |
| 26 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 27 | So what I intend to do from this week is that very thing , try and fill in as it were and er make up for what was n't covered in the classes because I must admit that this year I 've been struck by the high st high standard of the class presentations . |
| 28 | What I intend to do in this column is to explore and explain rhythm in its purest sense — from the point of view of notation , theory and practical application . |
| 29 | In November 1868 he had written to Rohde : " I intend to get through all the business of habilitation by Easter [ sc . |
| 30 | ‘ It means , simply , that I intend to look for another job . ’ |