Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall deal mainly with the latter subject , but I intend to spend just a few minutes on education . |
| 2 | In this article , I want to acknowledge openly a number of tensions that I experience , and which I suspect others may recognise . |
| 3 | To illustrate this I want to mention briefly a list of ways in which the Milltown Action Team has been able to either increase employment or increase local people 's chances of gaining employment . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to stage either a Scotland versus England international or a British championship by the end of April , ’ said Farr . |
| 5 | erm secondly , I want to say just a word about an idea that Gould , in particular , and Stanley had been fond of , namely the idea of species selection . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope to meet quite a few of them , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 7 | Well , I happen to know quite a lot of clever , amusing , wise , energetic old people who are excellent company and among whom are several of my friends . |
| 8 | A subject I happen to know quite a bit about because we 've got seven and a half million square feet erm in development at the moment in Lutterworth at Magna Park . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure what I like best , I seem to like quite a bit . |
| 10 | And I like to take quite a chunk of consolation from the fact they did nt beat us to the title … yet we beat them . |
| 11 | I like to make it [ the house ] nice , you know , and I like to spend quite a bit of time cooking and that . |
| 12 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
| 13 | I 'm now sixty two and I go dancing twice a week ! |
| 14 | one mistake you know forget something and you 'll be going round like this five pints I use , I use to see quite a lot of things missing you know in a certain time |
| 15 | Oh go on then , I keep saying just a small bit . |
| 16 | ‘ I do get quite a lot of fan mail I suppose , ’ he eventually concedes after much probing . |
| 17 | But I do get quite a few people phone me as you know asking for information . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do look rather a fright . ’ |
| 19 | But I do have quite a lot of tall plants , Water wisteria , Hygrophila and Polysperma as well as some bushy plastic plants . |
| 20 | Erm the imbalance is reflected in , in many ways but in one way is in traffic using the M twenty five , for example the Western section of the M twenty five from the M three , M four , M forty to the M one over the , the Western end where I live has approximately a hundred and sixty thousand vehicles a day which is e twice as many as the North Eastern side . |
| 21 | selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ? |
| 22 | Er well I think I 've said quite a bit about it . |
| 23 | Erm , so you would leave what I call this deadwood lying on your spreadsheet , cells that are using up memory , they 're not needed any more erm , on many people 's spreadsheets I 've discovered quite a lot of deadwood using up large amounts of memory , like in some people 's cases two-thirds of the memory used by the deadwood . |
| 24 | The diabetes can sometimes disappear if you lose weight and maybe that will happen to me one of these days as I 've lost quite a lot recently . |
| 25 | I 've seen quite a few er in the so well you see we belong wi the Guild is fit into three tiers . |
| 26 | Well , it is really strange , because I 've done quite a lot of stage work , but it 's funny because a lot of people — even other film actors — do n't know about it . |
| 27 | I 've done quite a few ads , the latest Marmite ad is mine and now I 've got the part in Brookside which is great , I 'm really enjoying it . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I 've done quite a few police jobs and appeared in front of the Royal Family . |
| 29 | Yeah , I 've read I do n't think I 've read every thousand pages of it , but I 've , I 've I 've done quite a lot of of it yes . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've met quite a few during the past five years , ’ he agreed smoothly . |