Example sentences of "i [vb base] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 're not a society yet , so I mean thinking about that , we have tried to become a society before . |
| 2 | I mean hearing from God is much more important than scotsport , is n't it ? |
| 3 | I mean looking at a book and see the distance between , in there they give you the distance between Leeds , Ipswich , Leicester and Scotland and then you come to kilometres and |
| 4 | unless we can divert money from other sources , but that 's erm , well I mean that 's the reality behind fifteen years of fairly steady growth , and I mean looking at at plateauing out , I think . |
| 5 | And if we have n't got a full slate well I mean looking at that list we 're doing quite well . |
| 6 | Erm I mean looking at the , er the only solution , I feel erm another poor factor of this committee is probably er erm unnecessary and if I look at appendix four which lists the possibles , if I can find , erm it is n't actually necessary to have rules all like this , er next years erm , next years priority will be dealt with next year . |
| 7 | I mean looking at the game you just could n't believe United would only get a point out of it erm when you went in at half time only one nil up , you so dominated the game I do n't think Charlton had a chance did they ? |
| 8 | There 's erm And I mean looking after the parish hall as well , why should we bother with that ? |
| 9 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
| 10 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 11 | I mean look , and even so I mean depending on where it 's gon na be |
| 12 | That 's what , I mean according to Tracey on |
| 13 | revolution has already happened , I mean according to this the , the landlord 's political power 's been smashed |
| 14 | I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The healing process — I mean working through things like guilt and remorse — that 's all really valuable . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't mind me saying this , I mean talking about Fiona like this , do you ? ’ |
| 19 | That depends on , I mean talking about action planning and |
| 20 | I mean talking to Charlie , just asking about getting some student bands on |
| 21 | I think he must be gay , I mean going into a monastery and not having anything to do with women and wearing a cravat |
| 22 | By ‘ symphonically conceived ’ I mean relying on large-scale musical argument rather than on imagery derived from what the Germans call ‘ applied music ’ , angewandte Musik ( for stage , film , circus , etc. ) and by extension , not dependent on overt reference to contemporary events . |
| 23 | I mean starting from the way children go to school in the morning — they expect their parents to take them quite often , and to contribute to pollution . |
| 24 | I mean waiting for me ? ’ |
| 25 | While I contemplate screaming for mercy . ) |
| 26 | Now draw a much more elastic I curve passing through point a . |
| 27 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 28 | On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty-first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family . ’ |
| 29 | She says I intend going to Strasbourg on Monday to argue that this report has been irresponsibly drawn up . |
| 30 | ‘ I intend going to all 21 community centres across the city in my capacity as community services chairman . |