Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 2 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 3 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 4 | So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ? |
| 5 | I mean to live in England and be a Master of Hounds , not a rotten little king of a rotten little country . |
| 6 | I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make |
| 7 | Anyway , the poi , the other thing is erm then obviously this re , concerns really you know , you two at the moment , but , players for next year , I mean bearing in mind we are gon na lose a few . |
| 8 | It has n't all been smooth running of course , I mean working in a parliament with eighty separate national political delegations , working in t nine languages , I have to admit we 've made the odd slip . |
| 9 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 10 | Well yeah I mean bear in mind bear in mind you 've got a week 's notice to put one together . |
| 11 | You might be able to do the odd one but I do n't think that you 've got the time , I mean bear in mind you 've gone from four to three to two there 's two of you now supervising all of us if you tell me you 've got spare time then great , and you want to do one or two equally great , however unless you tell me to the contrary |
| 12 | What I intend to do in this column is to explore and explain rhythm in its purest sense — from the point of view of notation , theory and practical application . |
| 13 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 14 | That 's what I intend to use in the eh . |
| 15 | ‘ I intend to stay in control — and I will make my own decisions all the way . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I like politics , I intend to stay in it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That is what I intend doing in India , and I think it can work . ’ |
| 18 | For 13 hours I lay shivering in my inadequate bag , drifting in and out of sleep . |
| 19 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 20 | I hate staying in hotels , they 're so impersonal , and this is rather spectacular . |
| 21 | ‘ I may be old-fashioned , ’ Alec sighed , ‘ but I hate experimenting in a lonely spot like this . ’ |
| 22 | Actually I hate playing in shops . |
| 23 | In fact , I hate playing in Britain because I 've always wanted to play in Spain or Belgium where they 'd understand me . |
| 24 | I hate talking in offices . |
| 25 | But I hate doing I hate creepy crawlies , I hate spiders and I hate going in the loft . |
| 26 | Well I tend to move in the same fleet . |
| 27 | ‘ When I have evenings off , I tend to stay in the club lurking in the shadows reading : I am disinclined to meet friends . |
| 28 | I work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal . |
| 29 | Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge , as the Gods who all things know . |
| 30 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |