Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | I cite only a few . |
2 | I back away a bit , and kneel down . |
3 | I mean just a friendly little party . |
4 | Yeah I mean just a few different should you use a little bit of green powder paint . |
5 | mhm Well I think it can go from anything , I mean just a vague feeling of suddenly being put off what you 're talking about because you 've suddenly become conscious of how you 're looking . |
6 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
7 | I mean why a position to do the work prior to her going away |
8 | It does n't supersede that in any way , and obviously if people do run into problems I mean normally a major problem in the first three months or three thousand miles is taken back to the dealer anyway . |
9 | We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team . |
10 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
11 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
12 | Cos I did ea , by Monday I felt sick and I eat quite a lot at the weekend which was good , but Tuesday I start at placement and we , although like we talk , we do n't have , like a , conversation we as well and there was n't really anything to record , saying yesterday to record and |
13 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
14 | I make not a party-political point , but one which shows the reality of not having proper consultations on the time scale for implementing such a major piece of legislation . |
15 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
16 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
17 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
18 | I ca n't write much this time because I 'm so near to coming home that my hand shakes every time I pick up a pen . |
19 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
20 | I peer round a stack of Hovis loaves and see Stewpid just entering the doors with Simon right behind him , no Jonathan though , slow-footed halfwit . |
21 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
22 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
23 | I attach hereto a copy of my DOS Directory plus contents of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and should appreciate your guidance in this respect . |
24 | But I slip down a couple of back roads and I find it soon enough . |
25 | And I say over a year now difficulty . |
26 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
27 | I say virtually a spectator role , for the teacher is likely still to endow the pupils with a role label — ‘ I have a patient outside . |
28 | I send in a couple of men ? ’ |
29 | I cook quite a reasonable steak . ’ |
30 | I want instead a humane , moral , critical , and intelligent , culture of dissent , which would deploy political energies in very different ways . |