Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 2 | The question I return to , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , is always the same : I put everything into this , everything I had by way of mind and body and heart , and this is what I have produced . |
| 3 | This is what I mean by protection — we did not run away from the terrible topic : the use of projection allowed us to face cancer . |
| 4 | And what I mean by help out is that one of the documents that we leave er when we sign them up to take the product is a list that so that looks something like this . |
| 5 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |
| 6 | Yeah , i it it 's based almost you kn you know what I mean by cliche ? |
| 7 | So let me show you what I mean by freedom . |
| 8 | ‘ It is what I mean by hazard . |
| 9 | You see what I mean by shape ? |
| 10 | I shall from time to time use some of their material for further analysis and in order to make clear what I mean by structure . |
| 11 | I will expand on what I mean by discourse in Chapter 10 but here it is sufficient to say that ‘ discourse ’ refers to the structured features of cultural processes when groups of signs become signifying elements in themselves . |
| 12 | D' ya know what I mean by body language ? |
| 13 | Erm and that 's what I mean by access . |
| 14 | The fact that I wrote the book may have suggested that I spoke a lot about private things , but that is not really what I mean by privacy in one 's life . |
| 15 | Ok , using that as an example , labrador , can someone please tell me what I mean by file , field and record ? |
| 16 | That 's what I mean by attention to detail . |
| 17 | First , perhaps I should explain what I mean by information technology . |
| 18 | And I think we need to heighten , sharpen our awareness of erm what I understand by communion and er er , also to er , to remember that the injunction of Paul as he was you know that I have received of the Lord at which I deliver unto you . |