Example sentences of "i [verb] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 2 | She wanted me to go and have a look at it with that still in there . |
| 3 | No break them Right you want me to go and get the other drink in now , you say ? |
| 4 | He invited me to go and see the Church in Africa and fortunately I accepted his invitation before he was recalled to become the APF director . |
| 5 | Do you want me to go and see the guy ? |
| 6 | This young man later persuaded me to arrange and present a series of music appreciation talks every Monday evening for the Baptist Young People 's Group of which he was president . |
| 7 | I hope they do n't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there . |
| 8 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 9 | Do you want me to come and hold the stopwatch ? ’ |
| 10 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 11 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 12 | I applied and got the details but never bothered sending off the application form because I did n't think I was capable of doing what was asked . |
| 13 | I happened to see the post advertised with OBEX so I applied and got the job . ’ |
| 14 | I mean that looked a write-off so I do n't know |
| 15 | But I mean that makes a difference Ann does n't it ? |
| 16 | Yeah , I mean that seems a plausible way of getting into the , er the job market , er what would Harrison Todaro erm say , you know , because they were saying that this migration , this migration was perfectly rational , despite there being high levels of unemployment . |
| 17 | I mean but see the tremendous strain that it 's putting on me ? |
| 18 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
| 19 | Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition . |
| 20 | If I lived there I mean and bought a house . |
| 21 | The more I wail and thrash the deeper I go , just like in any swamp or quicksand . |
| 22 | I goes and gets the strimmer . |
| 23 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |
| 24 | The Bombing Years , I stress and support the Harris claim that the Allied strategic bombing was the main contribution to the downfall of Hitler 's Reich and our victory in Europe . |
| 25 | I kneel and test the water with one hand . |
| 26 | He was rather braver than I expected and jumped the fences very well . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply : I do n't particularly like children ; I value my independence , the freedom to come and go , the open doors ; I want to write , and literary history tells me that my chances of succeeding as a writer and a mother are pitiful ; I hate and fear the nuclear family , the stifling atmosphere , the exploited wife and mother , the generation gap . |
| 28 | ‘ How else was I to try and get the location out of him ? ’ |
| 29 | He thought for a moment and added : ‘ In fact , the further I get into it , and see all these boats and families aboard , the more I realise that crossing the Atlantic is no feat at all . ’ |
| 30 | I knelt and wiped a diamond pane with my sleeve . |