Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now as a matter of interest ladies , I sell that at twen twenty nine pounds , seventy nine ninety nine . |
| 2 | I regret that for geographical and personal reasons I am not eligible for re-election and shall be leaving the committee altogether . |
| 3 | I regret that during my research for this debate I found that , in the field of computers , one of the least well-equipped police forces is that in my own area , Greater Manchester . |
| 4 | Full compliance with environmental legislation remains a key , yet elusive , target and I regret that in 1992 ICI was prosecuted or fined on a number of occasions for accidental environmental infringements . |
| 5 | I repeat that in the past 10 years there has been a devolution of power down into the regions right across Europe , not only inside the EC . |
| 6 | Have a gap there but I mean whereas at the moment it 's like that , not to that . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean that without evidence , they ca n't bring a charge . ’ |
| 8 | have to give guarantees that the tape would not be abused , but I mean that in , in , in actuality you know , if it was you doing the training |
| 9 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 10 | But I can see you know I mean that in itself is a blockage to many people is n't it . |
| 11 | Bearded , chubby and deceptively jovial , he fields problems in Ronald Reagan-like fashion ( and I mean that in a Dame Edna-like caring way ) . |
| 12 | In fact , Miriam went from the studios to the airport and back to America where she now ‘ largely ’ , and I mean that in yet another caring way , works . |
| 13 | ‘ All the really intelligent people I 've met , and I mean that in a clinical sense , have a sort of specialised intelligence . |
| 14 | And , one of the days she 'll learn the game , I mean that in the nicest sense , the , th th , the game , and when she learns the game she 'll stop coming out with ideas then . |
| 15 | I mean you do n't wan na be push , push I mean but at the same time you do n't wan na be you do n't definitely wan na be running around like a cuckoo head do you ? |
| 16 | Yeah I mean but on the other hand the there 's probably quite a few that did read it . |
| 17 | I mean But by all means |
| 18 | done so , I mean and as part of that you could ask questions about whether , you know there might be some longer-term placement you could do or something . |
| 19 | It 's the fact that we are so close to America , that we 've got this highly dynamic American sound that we had in the sixties in this country with the kind of dynamism in the sixties and the desire to sort of break through all kinds of formal barriers — I mean the mini skirt period , you know what I mean and in certain cities , like Liverpool , where this feeling of it is necessary to break through barriers to create this kind of dynamic sort of extremely vital sound . |
| 20 | I mean if in terms of the statement in the structure plan , it is simply the policy does n't relate to an outer northern relief road . |
| 21 | The fact is now I mean where like two years ago she was taking two and three exams at a time . |
| 22 | And I liken that to the power from above which can execute our sinful selves . |
| 23 | I fear that on health , as on other issues , that is all too true . |
| 24 | I fear that from becoming perhaps a local nuisance he will become a pest . |
| 25 | When warning the Church in Corinth to be on their guard against false preachers and false gospels he wrote ‘ But I fear lest by any means , as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility , so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ . ’ |
| 26 | I would n't define integrated and balanced individually , I 'd link them together , because to me they appear to be er a concept , that you move towards , and the concept to me is shall we say to provide a balanced population structure , which is n't biased to any one sector shall we say , it 's not an elderly , it 's not a retirement village there like perhaps you have in er certain parts of er er North America , and the second element of the concept is that it should provide a range of services compatible with its size , but I qualify that by saying , but not all the services that the people in that settlement require , and this brings me back to my discussion , debate with Mr Curtis . |
| 27 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 28 | I trust that at some stage I will have the opportunity to tax him on the curious proposal that legislation which increases the wage bill of companies does not necessarily increase the costs of those companies and therefore can be regarded as having nil effect on their competitiveness . |
| 29 | I trust that with spring just round the corner you will feel better . |
| 30 | ‘ Miss Kenton , if you for one moment believe I have time on my hands , that displays more clearly than ever your great inexperience , I trust that in years to come , you will gain a clearer picture of what occurs in a house like this . ’ |