Example sentences of "a [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | it 's D I Y really not a function I do n't think . |
2 | He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside . |
3 | After a bit I got up and — I went back . |
4 | Leeds , I like Man United , I do n't , I do n't hate them or anything I just , they get a bit I du n no . |
5 | To save my knees a bit I slid down onto my left hip , leaning my head and my left side against the tree . |
6 | You might do I do erm red one might fade a bit I do n't know . |
7 | Whether the recession knocks it back a bit I do n't know . |
8 | It 's a bit I do n't know |
9 | tends to be a bit I do n't know se dictorial |
10 | They 're smart , they 're a bit I do n't like those they go slippy slidey all over the place with those but these are nice . |
11 | After a number of closed doors there was a feeling of discouragement and uselessness but I thank God that another door has opened — not in a direction I had originally looked but one which I am sure is right for now . |
12 | She was careful not to push me in a direction I did n't want to go . |
13 | Oh yes they put this , this tannin down it was like a bark I do n't know what it was cos I 'm not in the leather trade , I , I do n't know much about it except that it was some by-product from the of the er tanning process , and they used to put this stuff down when people were ill . |
14 | ‘ Yes , but it is understudying a part I 've already played — and played well . ’ |
15 | Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book . |
16 | Edward studied the original cards — most of them contained quotations from the Rosarium philosophorum , a text I had n't read . |
17 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |
18 | Then , with a blitheness I had never associated with Pike , he stepped two paces back into the path of the oncoming truck . |
19 | One article in particular , from a writer I 've never heard of before , stated that the course was dull and boring and that there was no great degree of difficulty . |
20 | Whether I became a writer because of my desire for solitude or whether , being a writer I became more solitary , I still do not know . |
21 | If I want a T-shirt I do n't go to any pile I go to the hangers . |
22 | I loved it and I honestly feel it did me an enormous amount of good in calming my mind and making my body more supple ( although as a Christian I do n't practise meditative yoga ) . |
23 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
24 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
25 | Try telling me a story I do n't know ! |
26 | Limpar , on his way back from international duty with Sweden in Oslo , told me : ‘ Shearer is top class , a striker I rate very highly . |
27 | a smell I connect somehow |
28 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
29 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
30 | I do n't SEE WHy people grope us together as holigans 'cos we ai n't alright you get troble makers in every facktion But They do nt publish it if a niggeR does a old Biddy do they give us a faiR chance will someone as for stop being a SKIN I do nt think I will . ’ |