Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I merely wish to draw attention to the long chain of wrongly dated groups of pottery , each in turn dependent on the other , all the result of the false assumption that a few coins were contemporary with this deposit , whereas they were either residual or still in circulation , and in neither case have a relevance in establishing a terminus post quem . |
| 2 | At present I only wish to draw attention to a possible ambiguity in a crucial move . |
| 3 | This meant that people were prepared to offer me a sequence of positions in which I only had to do research without having to lecture . |
| 4 | I only want to do daddy 's pyjamas for the hospital |
| 5 | I only do fly fishing ! |
| 6 | My swimming partner and I greatly enjoyed taking part in the event . |
| 7 | I just hope fallen tycoon Trevor Deaves gets the message — it will save the DSS paying £1,883 a week for the mortgage on his million-pound mansion . |
| 8 | ‘ I just like to have fun and I like to hang out with people who like to have fun . |
| 9 | I just wanted to say thank-you for Arthur 's meat . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ No , I just wanted to say goodbye in person . ’ |
| 11 | She said I just wanted to commit suicide . |
| 12 | And I just wanted to play guitar for whatever reason . |
| 13 | I just need to draw attention to the fact that the erm Selby have given us a a very clear explanation of their unemployment problems and the difficulties they 're facing and erm their th th their solution being er the allocations that they 're suggesting which obviously I do n't agree with . |
| 14 | I just have to get outdream before the kicking scene comes along . ’ |
| 15 | I just want to live life to the full you know , enjoy myself , go round , you know . |
| 16 | I just want to draw attention to three major components within the committee report . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about right or wrong , I just want to discuss business with you . |
| 18 | ‘ Now I just want to get Christmas over with . |
| 19 | At this time George was in educational work and with no parish responsibilities I somehow volunteered to make tea at a keep-fit class which the local W.I. wanted to start . |
| 20 | And only now , two years after my return , am I finally beginning to make sense of my experience there . |
| 21 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |
| 22 | They wanted to get on but that made me swear if I ever got made Sergeant , I would never treat a man the way I was treated . |
| 23 | I always had to have mine with me , you got no babysitters then , you 'd got nowt . |
| 24 | Ranging from The Tallis Scholars latest , the completely inappropriate in this context Lamentations of Jeremiah , via Nigel Kennedy 's ‘ Just listen ’ , some of Sir Thomas Beecham 's classic lolli-pops , Carreras singing Verdi and de Falla , Ralph Downes at his Royal Festival Hall organ and John Harle 's saxophonic modern jazz tribute to Duke Ellington and , because I always like to include pianoforte , the début ( and very fine EMI Germany ) recording of the remarkable 21 years young , Lars Vogt . |
| 25 | And I always like doing business with a man who knows he 's over a barrel . |
| 26 | I always use shaving foam and the latest razors ( twin-blade swivel-heads are state-of-the-art at the moment ) , removing the downy brown growth of the previous day and night with dexterity and precision . |
| 27 | Wavebreaker was registered in the Channel Islands , and thus sailed under a defaced British red ensign with the Bahamian flag flying as a courtesy ensign from the main spreaders , but I always greeted arriving charter guests with their own country 's flag — though such a gesture was considered bad flag etiquette by nautical purists , it was good for our final tip — and so Thessy now hoisted the Stars and Stripes to the mainmast 's spreaders and a smaller Stars and Bars just beneath . |
| 28 | I always wanted to play football in England and now I have the chance . |
| 29 | I always wanted to have gallery openings on the same day but Annely Juda did n't . |
| 30 | I always wanted to study art there , but it 'll have to be London now , I suppose — if it 's anywhere ! |