Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sidled into the room , scarcely daring to breathe lest I harm the recording . |
| 2 | Some days later , a farmer phoned to discover whether I knew the meeting times and places of witches in his area . |
| 3 | The bubbles of foam trembled to mist and I sensed the house become dangerous , a mirage to my eyes . |
| 4 | Yes , I 've got yeah I know they did , but I think after a while they stopped doing that I think the latest ones you 'll find do n't , do n't do that , they gave , you know , after a while they gave that up , but I , I must check on that , I must check on . |
| 5 | " But I 've come to say that I told the police station 43 is an agreed squat . |
| 6 | My taste in food has changed and I love the feeling of lightness I have now . |
| 7 | I thought of the stack of dirty crocks to tackle after tea , of pictures and furniture that were once polished every week , and now got done when I had the time . |
| 8 | But that does n't apa , but what they look like is not going to affect whether I support the Ministerial Committee or not . |
| 9 | I said once that I wanted to make love to you , not go to bed with you , and I seem to remember that I emphasised the point . |
| 10 | There 's lots of things I would n't like to do if I ruled the world how about you ? |
| 11 | All I 've got to do when I give the tape back is |
| 12 | Eventually it dawned on me that he was n't going to change and I had the choice of either leaving or learning to live with it . |
| 13 | However , I had hardly got started before I got the first complaint . |
| 14 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 15 | I am unaware that any of this is going to happen as I enter the hotel lobby on my way to dinner . |
| 16 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 17 | I am beginning to wonder if I inhabit the same planet . |
| 18 | ‘ You will have to wait till I get the consent of the solicitor , at least . ’ |
| 19 | Now having said that I mean the late long established er unit trust group , I mean as a , as a company we 've got to be very careful who we use , we 've got an approved list erm in London and in Bournemouth we have erm a , a department which analyzes products , and those products come onto our approved list when they 've , when they 've fulfilled a number of criteria . |
| 20 | Erm having said that I think the novel is al is a spiritual journey erm not only Jane 's , I should say , but also Rocheter Rochester 's . |
| 21 | ‘ I must go , clearly , because I can not defend a policy I candidly dislike , ’ he wrote on 4 November , having already told Sir Walter Monckton , the Paymaster General , on 1 November that ‘ I felt I might have to resign as I thought the policy bad and disastrous . ’ |
| 22 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 23 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
| 24 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 25 | Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses . |
| 26 | Dick , thank you for those kind words , er , specially about er my book , and I think I am considering appointing you as my agent er , you also said er that I 'd dr drawn the short straw indeed you er whispered to me that I was the sacrificial lamb this morning well we 'll see about that but I do know that I have the great honour to be invited to speak to congress this morning on behalf of the G M B parliamentary group . |
| 27 | But when she writes or herself , her tone is almost girlish : ‘ The romantic world seems to have supposed that I kissed the sculptor last week . |
| 28 | On my shirt Harvey had arranged that I wore the word ‘ observer ’ , which meant I was able to remember a prior appointment when the going got rough . |
| 29 | Erm all those I 've mentioned before I think the number of of people who were convicted of petty offences , and maybe had never offended af before and did n't offend ever again , was probably quite high . |
| 30 | Er , we have n't , in the scheme that 's before you , we have n't been able to take account of , of all the things that people have said and I think the most significant point about that is the comments that Road should also be covered by this scheme . |