Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't really expect me to go fishing about underneath your bed if I do n't even know what I might find under it , now can you ? ’ |
| 2 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 3 | But you did n't expect me to go rummaging around in Paula 's diary , did you ? ’ |
| 4 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 5 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 6 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 7 | that 's why Richard phoned up before Christmas said do I want to go round to his place |
| 8 | But nor did I want to go out to work . |
| 9 | Well , I 'll help you , I 'll be round , I 'll be here helping but I must I want to get on with some work . |
| 10 | What do I want to get out of a job ? |
| 11 | Now , I suppose I regret holding out on him . |
| 12 | They think it was the stress , I mean moving down to Cornwall ! |
| 13 | erm because Mr was abroad and the girl said well I mean come in on Monday , when he 'll be back |
| 14 | An' I mean to go through with it , we both mean to go through with it . |
| 15 | I mean turn out in the er in , in in er er European elections was er in nineteen eighty four it was thirty two percent and in nineteen er eighty nine , thirty seven percent . |
| 16 | Um I know er at the in the clinic and all that kind of thing , I mean goes on about these people quite a bit . |
| 17 | Mm well maybe , I mean to come up with a , a clear example . |
| 18 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |
| 19 | Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future . |
| 20 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 21 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
| 22 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 23 | When we do so , I intend to carry on with my job , which has agricultural connections . |
| 24 | I purpose , therefore , to wage war myself in Wales , and I intend to set out from Lichfield on — let me see , this is the twenty-fourth of June — on the seventh day of July . |
| 25 | ‘ So now you also know why I intend to hang on to you ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 've given up too many things in the past and I intend to hang on to every penny that the sale of this house fetches . |
| 27 | And I intend to go down to London . |
| 28 | I intend cutting down on both . |
| 29 | Well , a bit I intend carrying on as the parliamentary candidate and somebody had obviously asked Dave why it is something has nothing whatsoever to do with the constituency . |
| 30 | The faint sound of his cello , as I lay tucked up in bed , is woven into my childhood memories . |