Example sentences of "i [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 're not a society yet , so I mean thinking about that , we have tried to become a society before . |
| 2 | And if we have n't got a full slate well I mean looking at that list we 're doing quite well . |
| 3 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
| 4 | revolution has already happened , I mean according to this the , the landlord 's political power 's been smashed |
| 5 | By ‘ symphonically conceived ’ I mean relying on large-scale musical argument rather than on imagery derived from what the Germans call ‘ applied music ’ , angewandte Musik ( for stage , film , circus , etc. ) and by extension , not dependent on overt reference to contemporary events . |
| 6 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 7 | ‘ I intend going to all 21 community centres across the city in my capacity as community services chairman . |
| 8 | Here are some of the weekly incomes and budgets of some of the people I met living on social security : One man and woman in their early twenties living in Coventry with one child , mostly unemployed since leaving school , have a total income of £5.25 child benefit . |
| 9 | And er I got going with that , carting bricks and timber and all that sort of thing for him , got really going and er fetching ballast from train concrete . |
| 10 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 11 | Yeah I hate shopping like that . |
| 12 | I hate driving round this with the rack on I absolutely hate it if it 's windy it 's awful . |
| 13 | ‘ I hate talking about all of them as though they were a lost tribe . ’ |
| 14 | I hate talking like this . |
| 15 | I tried ducking under broken sections , but they just ducked right down after me . |
| 16 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 17 | As I slid the door bolt home I stopped counting at ninety-two . |
| 18 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 19 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 20 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 21 | I enjoy listening to that while I 'm |
| 22 | But of course I enjoy going to Red Cross |
| 23 | I 'm worried about the future of one of the areas I enjoy walking in most — Studland Heath . |
| 24 | Whom do I remember talking to most as a child ? |
| 25 | I stand looking in that window for ages . |
| 26 | And in bed I lie yawning till eleven again . |
| 27 | I recall going into such a shop a few years ago to replace my survival bag . |
| 28 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 29 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 30 | For example , when I began researching into social aspects of book reading I knew very little at all about publishing or bookselling and my experience of libraries was mainly limited to being a user of them . |