Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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31 | Cheating , I mean out and out cheating , that 's what it is . |
32 | I mean out of the three that he saw and prefer , I must admit he did prefer forty four . |
33 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
34 | I mean back here . |
35 | And erm magneto broke on it and these , I mean back shockers are a bit weak on this and that , but Sharon had it and said oh it 's not big enough ! |
36 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
37 | I mean down , when we 've done down here we 've pu god been putting mats down and lord knows what |
38 | It 's twenty one miles from Northampton , they never cla I mean down here people think Northampton is in the north . |
39 | What I mean by ‘ basks in the reflected glory ’ is this . |
40 | I mean by that a tuxedo , as I think you will probably know it . |
41 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
42 | That 's what I mean about when he sort of ran off that night I thought , in one way I was pissed off with him but in one way I thought well at least he can you know ? |
43 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
44 | ‘ Oh , I rub along , you know ! |
45 | From the loaf I have taken with me I tear off several pieces of crust and toss them one by one into the current , which carries them over the spot where the chub surfaced . |
46 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
47 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
48 | Am I not guilty of the same essentialist fallacy if I tear down Ormrod J. 's thesis simply to erect my own property-based ‘ essence ’ which conveniently allows me , then , to advance my argument concerning homosexual unions ? |
49 | ( Shampoo this one while I comb out Mrs Brown . ) |
50 | On Friday when I breeze in , fairly cheery 'cos it 's nearly Saturday , I find a note waiting for me . |
51 | I bundle up my love |
52 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
53 | I bring up the subject of music . |
54 | I bring up the others , cooling all the while , before we flounder over to the descent rake and back to the house . |
55 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
56 | Put it back up and I 'll nail it up some time when I bring up erm , I 'll bring up a hammer |
57 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
58 | The idea that , that human beings are a species whose social interactions are very critical , as we know social interactions are also very important to reproductive success , and so I bring in inside this analytic cooperation the idea about deception and the evolution of the unconscious , that press deceivers do n't know that , deceiving . |
59 | But if I bring in my camera it means |
60 | I bring out my wide-eyed honest look : ‘ I had to check on the flat . |