Example sentences of "[vb base] i [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 2 | I mean I shout up to the bathroom , I mean |
| 3 | ‘ Does Faye … or Dr Greene … want me to go in to the hospital ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 5 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 6 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 7 | The potential ramifications of such a theme could be vast so let me start somewhere in the middle . |
| 8 | Let me blow out of the water some of the common misconceptions about negotiations . |
| 9 | Let me press on to the important subject of the council water charge which is set out in schedule 11 . |
| 10 | Let me quote again from the report so that people realise that I am not making this up . |
| 11 | Her eyes closed , she turned her face away , released her hold on my cheekbones and let me go on into the hall . |
| 12 | Right erm let me go right to the back , the Security Council man , what have you written down ? |
| 13 | The members are accountable and let me go back about the committees . |
| 14 | Let me turn quickly to the out turn figures that were in P and R. The capital programme is already on line , although it was grossly underfunded . |
| 15 | ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury . |
| 16 | Let me come straight to the point . |
| 17 | But just let me come back to the the point I want to make , it is it evident to us from what was said yesterday collectively by the District Councils , that they could live with the figure of forty one thousand two hundred , as proposed by the County Council , without a new settlement . |
| 18 | Here 's your mother , now let me get on with the work . ’ |
| 19 | I imagine I stand just inside the door for a few moments , looking into the corner of the room in a companionable way . |
| 20 | I 'll use a cheque and hope I have enough in the account back home . ’ |
| 21 | And I know that 's what she 's planning to do — get me thrown out of the company that I 've helped to build , taken a reduced salary . |
| 22 | The thought of the pigeon sitting alone in its Bible-nest inside the big wheel , with black shadows all around and no one to talk to , set me scurrying off like the returning hunter . |
| 23 | I remember I went back to the ambulance feeling quite horrified . |
| 24 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 25 | On holiday , when people look at my freckles and fair hair and warn me to keep out of the sun , I give a deep confident laugh and assure them that I turn mahogany brown . |
| 26 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I prefer either to the Heart as Love 's Captive . |
| 28 | In the second place , if you think I crept out into the street last night and daubed some portentous graffito on the wall opposite your room , you are very much mistaken . |
| 29 | And er as probably er you gathered Stan and I are both ex-policemen in relation to erm to er our our background and er I think I said yesterday to the er some of the guys as well , one of the things that lorry drivers and policemen do have very much in common is that we have pr probably one the shortest erm pension lives of most professions . |
| 30 | I think I get more from the athletes than they do from me |