Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
2 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
3 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
4 | So I back away from them . |
5 | I change out of my pyjamas into them to write |
6 | " I change there for Bisbee . |
7 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
8 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
9 | I cash in on my sex appeal I take all the credit I give you the |
10 | I have no commercial gallery and I sell only through commissions and the Royal Academy ; moreover having always had a teaching job , I have no real need to sell . |
11 | See now what his power is , for the day when I sate down before Juballa I had no more than four loaves of bread , and now by God 's mercy I have won Valencia . |
12 | I repeat again in 1992 our major aim as a business is to improve the service we sell so well ; that we provide to our customers . |
13 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
14 | I mean eventually of course if somebody is dissatisfied , and they do n't believe that they 're getting er what they want , then they may well end up speaking to me , or writing to me , but er it 's the first place to start is with the individual service . |
15 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
16 | So , I mean apart from arthritis life 's quite good ! |
17 | I mean apart from costs |
18 | This morning you were your usual bright self , but now I suspect that something has really upset you — I mean apart from Doreen 's bitchiness . ’ |
19 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
20 | I mean apart from that , yeah I mean you 're marvellous |
21 | erm , no I mean apart from the concrete it helps to fill the hole |
22 | I mean you never look at someone and say , I mean apart from your parents |
23 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
24 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
25 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
26 | But for the dressing-up ghosts it just about sends them crazy , after all that bother , finding the right clothes , and often arranging to carry their heads in funny places — I mean not on their necks — and then the lifer just does n't take any notice . |
27 | ‘ They do n't live together — I mean not in the same place , ’ he added conscientiously . |
28 | Yeah , and I say , you know I mean obviously it 's too big but I mean not from from the point of view that the buildings are right outside of them ai n't they ? |
29 | You can have Piers , not literally , I mean just on the tape . |
30 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |