Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] i [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realise that I come into the picture as a relative , and I do feel natural interest and concern for my great-uncle . |
| 2 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 3 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
| 4 | So just sit back and wait while I disappear into the studio . |
| 5 | I mean like I said on a Friday we get thirteen seventy five till twelve o'clock . |
| 6 | Well I mean the children , I mean if I go into the school and I , and say to them look there is a fire there but , you know , please will you not use it but it 's just a question of whether the children fiddle with it really , that 's |
| 7 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 8 | Bring and I chat to the r |
| 9 | I confirm that I returned from the Gulf late last night . |
| 10 | He knows that the knickers I wear when I sit in the saddle are not the smartest articles of underwear in my wardrobe . |
| 11 | You know if I got in a |
| 12 | If you wish you know but I mean during the week nine times |
| 13 | I bought along this brochure , you can have a copy if you like but I mean at the back there are forty five institutions all virtually paddling their own canoe . |
| 14 | So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects . |
| 15 | ‘ Like as I said to the General , miss , the young gentleman 'll have to be worse afore he 's better . ’ |
| 16 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 17 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 18 | Tod and I reclined on the wrung bedding as Irene advanced into the room , holding a tightly gripped paper tissue to her eyes and calling us a piece of shit . |
| 19 | I feel like I stepped into a fridge . |
| 20 | Armstrong started up first go and I dialled around the local radio stations to try and catch if anyone was doing anything stupid on the roads . |
| 21 | ‘ If some people think that I live in a void , as you put it , ’ said the poet on television , ‘ perhaps that tells us more about them than about me . |
| 22 | Mind if I work in the garage today ? ’ |
| 23 | Situations vacant in particular showed a very , a very big drop and erm , and in fact we , the yield was lower than the year before , but we 've er , continued with our pac press rationalization programme and er , I think as I mentioned at the interims , the Basildon Evening Echo is now printed on the F T's presses , which incidentally has got the contract to and is printing er , . |
| 24 | Well er I think as I mentioned at the outset , there 's no fundamental technical problem er a system operating broadly in the same way er was designed an an and proved on the United Kingdom 's experimental aircraft programme er six or seven years ago , er this particular aircraft , the airfighter two thousand , will employ a rather more er extensive capability in its flight control system . |
| 25 | over subscribed courses as well , I mean when I went on the language and , and the national curriculum and that other thing that I did on the national curriculum , masses of people there . |
| 26 | I mean when I started with a shop in Harlow what , erm , nearly twenty five |
| 27 | Carradine and I sauntered across the dance floor . |
| 28 | I have but I need for the I need it for the , er going into the er , washing machine . |
| 29 | and I have tablets from the doctor and you see as I say from the waist upwards I 'm |