Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She phoned me earlier this week and invited me to come down here to see her land . |
| 2 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 3 | Erm okay well in that case er what sort of time scale are we working to I mean how soon do you need somebody here ? |
| 4 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 5 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 6 | how long ago , I mean how long has it been there ? |
| 7 | I mean how often do you use six ? |
| 8 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 9 | I sit there quietly revising my priorities as far as expending grief goes . |
| 10 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 11 | ‘ And I got close enough to count them as they rode past . |
| 12 | Only I want Only just get me a tin of hair lacquer , normal hold for tinted that 's all I want . |
| 13 | I woke up suddenly feeling something cold and smooth pressing into my side . |
| 14 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 15 | As with so many worldly matters , it was Lawrence who had introduced me to the gravel and grain method of 241 humane culling , but only the theory of it ; I 'd never yet tried it in the field . |
| 16 | Before writing this I 'd never actually seen it before , but after playing it I realise I did n't miss anything . |
| 17 | I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’ |
| 18 | Puts , but she knew that if she 'd bought me one with all those buttons , I 'd off just confused her |
| 19 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 20 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 21 | Well I 'd only just brought it in the kitchen actually . |
| 22 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd only ever given him pills before , and I 'm not medically trained , but it 's surprising how quickly you get used to it . |
| 24 | I 'd hardly ever tried it . |
| 25 | In a rush , Lucy said : ‘ I came here tonight hoping you 'd got over me . ’ |
| 26 | I came up here thinking I would ; I assumed I 'd need to offload on somebody , but somehow it never seemed to be the right time to introduce the subject . |
| 27 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a shame , ’ he shrugs , ‘ cause I came out here thinkin' we 'd be able to sit down and talk . |
| 30 | The last chit I hired not only got herself — well , you know , with the coachman , but made off with some of my best lace when I turned her away . |