Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But little by little , as I became absorbed into rural life , I came to enjoy my ‘ inconveniences ’ . |
2 | I made do with peripheral vision , which , after all , is the next best thing . |
3 | I mean compared with other |
4 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
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 | 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 . |
7 | Bradshaw was the only man I met to laugh at twenty-foot waves . |
8 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
9 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
10 | I got changed in double quick time but she must have beaten me . |
11 | So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms . |
12 | I expected to bump into young Darius or someone . |
13 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
14 | For more delicate greenstuff and for the fruity veg I tend to turn to olive oil . |
15 | You can do too much of this if you are not careful and as I tend to paint with sharp stabby strokes it can be a fault with me to look rather bitty . |
16 | ‘ I tend to listen to odd things they do but not in any depth . |
17 | ‘ I tend to work with up-and-coming guitar bands because that 's the music I like listening to and that 's what I understand better . |
18 | I tried ducking under broken sections , but they just ducked right down after me . |
19 | I tried to think of specific areas … like number of wins — home record — goals etc . |
20 | I tried to think of nice things ; then , when I could n't think of any , I determined to concentrate on what was happening around me . |
21 | ‘ 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 . |
22 | In the absence of anything comparable among the Greeks , I hesitate to attribute to royal initiative a translation so clearly born within the precincts of the synagogue . |
23 | I want to deal in particular with the Iraqi waste controversy . |
24 | Act and that I want to talk to local authority associations about that , so we will be in consultation with them . |
25 | ‘ I WANT TO TALK ABOUT black comedy on TV — I wo n't be long . ’ |
26 | I want to talk about Offensive from Quasar 13 . ’ |
27 | So I want to talk about medical practices er |
28 | Finally , I want to move from cognitive models of word recognition to cognitive models of face recognition . |
29 | The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life . |
30 | And I want to eat well and I want to be comfortable and I want to stay in good hotel |