Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time I travelled from Wick to Dingwall was when the railway only reached as far north as Golspie ; the other portion of the road was an overnight stage-coach journey ; and to accommodate some ladies I took a seat on the top : it was a clear cold night , and the air was keen indeed . |
| 2 | She 's bringing some files I have to work on . |
| 3 | ‘ I got some humbugs I was goin' to slip in me mouth . ’ |
| 4 | I want some twiglets I want some twiglets . |
| 5 | Oh James no James you want some listeners I 'm sorry love . |
| 6 | I says if I 'd 've wanted a slice of fat and I 'd 've want burnt tomatoes I says I would 've ordered them . |
| 7 | Oh , I do need some trousers I ca n't bloody , these are all coming apart anyway |
| 8 | Suggestions ! has some ideas I believe . |
| 9 | Anybody wants some copies I have a few copies here . |
| 10 | My plump American friend , , who you have met , I think , has just shortened some curtains I got for Naples ( for a donation to the Romania Appeal ! ) . |
| 11 | I felt she desperately needed my help , and I made frequent visits and tried innumerable remedies I consulted my colleague Siegfried on the problem and he suggested a diet of charcoal biscuits . |
| 12 | If one 's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks . |
| 13 | Suppose I say : ( 24 ) Nigel has fourteen children I shall implicate that Nigel has only fourteen children , although it would be compatible with the truth of ( 24 ) that Nigel in fact has twenty children . |
| 14 | You never found those labels I made out did you ? |
| 15 | To obtain uniform segments I use a cutting jig to hold the plank at the desired angle . |
| 16 | ‘ We have applied for the use of a pitch at the Welsh College of Horticulture in Northop but , meanwhile , if anyone else has any ideas I would be grateful if they would contact me . ’ |
| 17 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 18 | I have seen ACE schemes I have seen abuse of them . |
| 19 | ‘ What good would it have done telling Sergei I 'd found you ? |
| 20 | I could do some potatoes I suppose boiled |
| 21 | Do watch these examples I 'm putting up , by the way cos I muck these up |
| 22 | In the many visits I paid in the course of promoting these activities I again found the kind of awareness of what was new in literature in places I had least expected ; and when in the autumn of that year The Idea of a Christian Society was published , it was much more successful than Eliot hoped . |
| 23 | Since writing these words I have been assured by Manx Cat specialists that the animal 's troublesome genetic defects have now been largely eliminated by careful selective breeding without losing its uniquely tailless condition . |
| 24 | Rather than categorise these structures I shall describe briefly just one community , the Patels , and by tracing the changes in their dowry system , follow the changes in the position of Patel women . |
| 25 | So presumably he 's actually believing these ideas I mean I would 've thought he , he if he came back and said there 's tension , there 's , you know it was , between the two classes and we go in and we direct them in a certain way , put the right ideas in their mind , that we can harness the revolution . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll show these scoundrels I 'm an honest woman , ’ said my mother . |
| 27 | Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 30 | I have said many times I do not wish to hire yes-men . |