Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted me to drive on and I was in no position to argue . |
| 2 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 3 | She looks real comfy there and I think about sitting down for a bit and watching telly , but I ai n't got nothing to sit on so I just carry on standing up . |
| 4 | I want to sit down before I go a rush this morning |
| 5 | She wanted to sit down but I said we 've just got to get out as soon as possible . |
| 6 | She wanted to sit down but I said we 've just got to get out as soon as possible . |
| 7 | I have to sit down cos I feel all dizzy . |
| 8 | I could n't ask her to sit down as I can when I 'm doing a portrait of someone I know . |
| 9 | She 's a clumsy clogs that 's why I wo n't let her walk around with the baby if she wants to cuddle her I tell her to sit down and I tell her not to move well she 's always tripping over her feet . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 11 | This is the kind of dreamy Hollywood fantasy I like to float in when I 'm lying flat on my back under some dirty platform desperately trying to tack a loose wire or stubborn piece of baize into position — or standing in a wet field trying to work out exactly how the VIPs will swim through the mud from the helicopter to the marquee . |
| 12 | I feel as if I am poised somewhere on the edge of a slope , and about to slide down when I am supposed to be climbing up . |
| 13 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |
| 14 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 15 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 16 | That 's something that we do have to work on and I ca n't emphasize it too strongly . |
| 17 | I , I did n't intend to come on but I think it 's one of the best er , Sunday mornings I 've had in years ! |
| 18 | And er and they the the afternoon shift used to come on and I used to have to carry all these checks across then , the yard and take 'em and hang 'em up in the in the check-weigh on the pit top where they weighed the wagons of coals . |
| 19 | I was n't going to struggle on if I was going to die in six months ! |
| 20 | Yes you do go on tell i what have I just been telling you then that you need to concentrate on that I think you should be concentrating on . |
| 21 | I need to know when er I want Bill to come along cos I 'm gon na look at a car.gonna can |
| 22 | Erm somehow or other it 's going to come along and I think most people 's thinkings are that it will be shown as a tax item on the ticket as are the taxes in other countries |
| 23 | They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television . |
| 24 | My Director-General asked me to come along because I usually handle the lower-level liaison with Number 10 . |
| 25 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 26 | Then I heard a voice call me to come in so I turned the door knob and entered . |
| 27 | My cleaner used to come in and I 'd be in bed . |
| 28 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 29 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 30 | I 'll try to slip over if I get a spare minute . |