Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no , what do I do about if I get given a detention ? |
| 2 | ‘ You make me feel as if I 'd died . ’ |
| 3 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 4 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |
| 5 | I am chickening out cos I do n't feel as if I 've learnt an awful lot . |
| 6 | And I shall feel as if I 've got up , been round the world |
| 7 | Well , in comes Alf , with 'is belly full of old and mild as usual , and asks me why do I look as if I 'd lost a pound and found thruppence . |
| 8 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 9 | ‘ You make it sound as if I 've won a sweepstake ! ’ she said bitterly , still fighting to control her feelings . |
| 10 | Okay , well there 's more technical detail I could go into but I think y'know I 'm not sure how how useful it is to you . |
| 11 | Erm yeah they do tend to but I have seen er a friend of mine had a really nice smart one , it was erm it was black , it was just plain black and it had really thin straps and erm it went down , it was a V or something here ? |
| 12 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 13 | Yes I would care for when I had to do something , rather than just go straight into that , good |
| 14 | ‘ He had a terrible problem which he could n't talk about but I want to sort it out for him . ’ |
| 15 | I could n't care less whether I go dancing or not me |
| 16 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |