Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I believe that with the privileges that come to those who benefit most from the capitalist system there are obligations , and so the combination of that latter thought makes me want to do something about the inner cities , plus a revulsion at waste and hopelessness and dereliction and concern which is self-evident in some of these older towns and cities . |
| 2 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 3 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 4 | you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long |
| 5 | put it in the vice , I mean put it in the vice whether , whether it just pull the head off I do n't know but it came out |
| 6 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 7 | ‘ There is a big future for this club , and I intend to put it on the right footing . |
| 8 | Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’ |
| 9 | I intend to do it in a proper English accent ( You can do it ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I intend to introduce him to the Führer at that meeting , General . |
| 11 | We will take coffee at once and then I intend to show her over the house . |
| 12 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 13 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 14 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 15 | I hate bathing her in the sink because the kitchen is draughty , especially since a chunk of the wall fell out a few weeks ago . ’ |
| 16 | I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it . |
| 17 | I tend to keep them in the originals cos then I if I need to . |
| 18 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 19 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 20 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 21 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 22 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 23 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 24 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 25 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 26 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 27 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 28 | I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ? |
| 29 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
| 30 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |