Example sentences of "i [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked trembling . |
| 2 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 3 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 4 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 5 | Needless to say , I found his political philosophy disagreeable and unacceptable , but as my mission was to reach agreement I avoided becoming involved in basic considerations or in any way assessing the value of white rule as against black . |
| 6 | These kinds of variations can seem very confusing , which is why I advocate taking the job slowly , one section at a time . |
| 7 | It is for these two different reasons , then , that I advocate adopting graded tests . |
| 8 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 9 | The following weekend I cemented capping stones round the top of the new pond and also round the header pools . |
| 10 | I regret dragging you back here , but I had to be certain . " |
| 11 | Now , I suppose I regret holding out on him . |
| 12 | ‘ In some ways , I regret losing my opportunity to perform this piece , but I do n't begrudge you yours . ’ |
| 13 | But Mr Tebbit told Mr Hurd : ‘ I regret having to say that I disagreed with almost everything he ( Mr Hurd ) said and agreed with almost everything the Right Hon gentleman said from the Opposition front bench . ’ |
| 14 | In this instance , I do not particularly welcome this debate , because I regret having to make these points tonight in this way . |
| 15 | I regret interrupting you . |
| 16 | They think it was the stress , I mean moving down to Cornwall ! |
| 17 | I 've got the spare tablets but I mean getting the prescription . |
| 18 | I mean getting a job on the land ? ’ |
| 19 | we 're not a society yet , so I mean thinking about that , we have tried to become a society before . |
| 20 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
| 21 | You know it 's funny when I 've been up when I 've been on a diet , I mean smelling , smoked out , smoked out on the house |
| 22 | I mean hearing from God is much more important than scotsport , is n't it ? |
| 23 | By ‘ personal care ’ I mean nursing someone who can not fully look after themselves and/or performing domestic tasks which they are unable to undertake . |
| 24 | When I say dinner parties , I mean drinking parties with a cooked meal thrown in . |
| 25 | I mean looking at a book and see the distance between , in there they give you the distance between Leeds , Ipswich , Leicester and Scotland and then you come to kilometres and |
| 26 | I did n't know what to say , and they said , well where were you , well er , I said we were all standing on the balcony and we , we did n't hear you , erm , it was ab I mean looking back now , it 's funny , but it was ludicrous at the time . |
| 27 | unless we can divert money from other sources , but that 's erm , well I mean that 's the reality behind fifteen years of fairly steady growth , and I mean looking at at plateauing out , I think . |
| 28 | And if we have n't got a full slate well I mean looking at that list we 're doing quite well . |
| 29 | Erm I mean looking at the , er the only solution , I feel erm another poor factor of this committee is probably er erm unnecessary and if I look at appendix four which lists the possibles , if I can find , erm it is n't actually necessary to have rules all like this , er next years erm , next years priority will be dealt with next year . |
| 30 | There 's erm And I mean looking after the parish hall as well , why should we bother with that ? |