Example sentences of "i [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 2 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 3 | But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 5 | ‘ You want me to see this guy , sir ? ’ |
| 6 | Now , the final point I want to make in this little section , and I think Liz is going to help me make this point , and that is that one of your problems , which is not a big problem compared with some organizations , is you 've got to take what you 're doing , and repackage it in such way that it is of interest to ordinary people . |
| 7 | and I had Mike ironing them while I was putting 'em up , I said right stand here and watch me hang this curtain , so I 'm showing him how to iron it , so while I 'm upstairs putting 'em up he 's ironing |
| 8 | ‘ Will you bring me to meet this man ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |
| 10 | Let me qualify this statement . |
| 11 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 12 | After I got back to work I realised just how many people do n't give blood in the Institute ( which is what prompted me to write this article ) . |
| 13 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 14 | But when and how did I make this escape ? |
| 15 | For example , I perceive this flower in front of me because light which has been reflected from it impinges on my retina and causes trains of nerve impulses to travel along the visual pathways to the visual cortex . |
| 16 | I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ? |
| 17 | Erm but I mean i i you know the reason I asked this question is that , if this group said now , Absolutely no way . |
| 18 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 19 | I asked this housemaster to develop this further . |
| 20 | And another thing I asked this engineer that were in charge of job . |
| 21 | That 's the question I asked this morning , Why was n't it you know , why were n't we doing it ? |
| 22 | Colleagues , I commend this report to you . |
| 23 | I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity . |
| 24 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 25 | So they should , and when the list of necessities is securely written down , you can ask the second question : How do I want this garden to feel ? |
| 26 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 27 | ‘ Then last night I made this promise to him . |
| 28 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 29 | I made this bed , and I 've got to lie on it . ’ |
| 30 | I made this ascent on a lowering afternoon that turned thundery , and I stood only momentarily I will admit on the bridge , as the storms brewed noisily up in the mountains all around and the lightning began . |