Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 2 | its not how they came into the world of real names to stick with prat names like Beatrice and , I mean I know its old royal and that and I mean fancy going to school in that bloody Henry and William , I mean William 's not too bad |
| 3 | well this chap says there 's er , oh he says how much is , he said oh he says , nine by one pound , pound a foot , I said good grief pound a foot , so I mean start talking about six by threes |
| 4 | This is , this is why I find it very sad I mean having gone to erm Meeting for our my apology for this . |
| 5 | ‘ Only that bad publicity has a nasty habit of surfacing , and that 's the last thing I intend to let happen at this crucial stage . ’ |
| 6 | Well , we 've made some progress in some areas , but not as much as I would 've liked , although I intend to keep working at it . |
| 7 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 8 | ‘ Almost everyone I met had lost at least one relative , some had lost several , and families had been scattered hundreds of miles apart , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 9 | It ai n't like I 'm going nowhere special — it 's just so cold I got to move to keep from freezing . |
| 10 | I try it for a bit — you know , pretending that I 'm all frozen , but someone on a bike comes down the path and I got to move to get out the way . |
| 11 | If you had a talent , you were recognised , and often I got invited to play for the local Boy Scout group . |
| 12 | I hate going shopping with them , she wants to go next Saturday , I said fuck that . |
| 13 | I tend to get to hear about them from seeing the Post Office . |
| 14 | Yeah , well I I tried to get rid of it but it would n't go . |
| 15 | One such is Marilyn Lawrence 's The Anorexic Experience ( The Women 's Press , 1984 ) , which I found did talk about my experiences without making me feel weirder than ever , or a mere statistic . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not sure I want to let go of it , ’ said Masklin . |
| 17 | That 's what I want to see happen in this country and I want to do it . ’ |
| 18 | Only band I want to see playing in the world . |
| 19 | It is not a label which I want to see attached to the British economy . |
| 20 | I want to go camping with some of my friends |
| 21 | ‘ Not if I want to continue fitting into all my clothes . ’ |
| 22 | I sort of was a bit lost on me trig so that 's really what I want to get to go through a bit of trig . |
| 23 | If they know which party you are from and say , ‘ Oh I expect I 'll vote for you ’ , they probably mean ‘ I wo n't , but I want to get rid of you quickly because Dallas is just beginning ’ , or , I 've no idea and I 'm really not interested — politicians are all the same . ’ |
| 24 | Well , I was doing this for him in a loving sort of wifely way and he said , ‘ Oh , by the way , I want to get rid of you ’ and I said , ‘ Thank you very much ’ and he said , ‘ Well , finish the trousers and post them on . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , that 's why I want to get rid of it first . |
| 26 | I want to get rid of it . |
| 27 | car boot sale , there 's other bits and bobs I want to get rid of |
| 28 | but er , so now I 've got a thirty six , thirty five , thirty four , thirty four , thirty four , thirty two and thirty , so that 's a B count in B file , so there 's no hassle with that , but if I can get on and get rid of the er , I 've got twenty eight , twenty nine in there as well , er twenty eight in there as well , so I want to get rid of the twenty eight and twenty nine but it is a guarantee that a B file , so there 's |
| 29 | I want to learn to manage by myself . |
| 30 | But really I want to try to slip past them . |