Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | What I , I intend to do is to , I think it would be unfortunate if , as the result of a major development which is actually funding this new junction , the County Council then has to pick up the bill for other ameliorating effects a little bit further on the network . |
2 | Erm I have a number of points to make but what I intend to do is to er very briefly outline them and then see where we go from there if that 's acceptable . |
3 | So , what I want to do is to er really repeat what I said last week but with a different emphasis . |
4 | So all I want to do is to forward my external calls which are n't being answered . |
5 | Yeah , really the question I want to put is to the er B T Post Office er representatives , that y you made a perfectly reasonable objection to the way in which B T funded it 's early retirement scheme from the pension fund . |
6 | The second point I want to make is in relation to something that has changed since the approved strategy and that is the inter-relationship between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire . |
7 | I 'm with you , for a start , and I happen to like being with you . |
8 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
9 | There now occurred something , that in retrospect , I believe to have been of the greatest significance to this journey . |
10 | I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times . |
11 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |
12 | ‘ What I do intend is for you to drive down town with me right now , come into the notary 's office and sign away any rights you imagine you might have . |
13 | I do love being in proper country . |
14 | Erm sometimes I do find being in Harlow very hard erm and there 's a lot of unemployment , there 's a lot of depression , there are a lot of one parent families and er the children ha er in one family they 've all got different dads |
15 | Johnson , who was looking askance at Miss Beresford 's occupational therapy , said , ‘ In the scale of insignificance , I think knotting is to be reckoned next to mere idleness — ; though I once attempted to learn knotting … but I made no progress . ’ ) |
16 | Benefits I think have been within the architecture is that M I S can now be more responsive to the users needs . |
17 | So far so good ; now all I had to do was to muck up my second throw and ‘ Jaz ’ would be the winner . |
18 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
19 | None of the nursemaids I had engaged were of any use at all . |
20 | I would remember the sunlight that I had thought was like wealth , redeemed and transformed beyond the reach of cupidity , and the shadows that were not black but the colour of great half-forgotten riches . |
21 | The best time I had playing was in Africa , out in Zambia . |
22 | Mm I bet it 's been twisted I 've had experience of things I 've said being in the paper and not coming out as I 've said them . |
23 | The only tackiness I 've discovered was in the two paintings kept pressed together . |
24 | Yeah but I mean I think the stuff , the stuff that I 've written is like rubbish , it 's like I du n no |
25 | I 've imagined being in bed with him . |
26 | An inland walk I 've enjoyed is around a five mile route starting from Bosullow Common , south of Morvah , an area rich in prehistoric remains . |
27 | I 'm already past the statutory retirement age and besides , I 've enjoyed being with the people in Harwich so I 'd like to stick with them if I can . ’ |
28 | I 've enjoyed being with you . |
29 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
30 | Yeah I 've got one you see but I 've put been on it . |