Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 2 | I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world . |
| 3 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 4 | I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself . |
| 5 | ( I am angry over an act of injustice or I wonder at the sight of Niagara Falls or I am pleased with my Christmas present . ) |
| 6 | well I 'm , I 'm quite happy , never going out , never see the outside world except I go in the ambulance |
| 7 | Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently . |
| 8 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |
| 9 | And , although I agree with the author that the Shaw-Mohler equation is characterised by ‘ its utter simplicity ’ , it seems a little brutal to derive it in a page of text by introducing 11 variables , when the equation itself can be reduced to three . |
| 10 | Although I agree with the Minister that empty properties could be used to house homeless people , is not it the case that until capital receipts are released from the sale of council properties , councils will not have the resources to put properties back into use for people who need them ? |
| 11 | Although I agree with the sensible suggestion of my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , South-East ( Mr. Paice ) , does my right hon. Friend agree that we must try to prevent these crimes from happening and that the best way to do that is for him to instruct magistrates courts throughout the country to pass very harsh sentences on those who are convicted of this outrageous abuse of private property ? |
| 12 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 13 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to leave , ’ he said heavily , ‘ because my conscience dictated that I inform on the Nazis . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I realise that I come into the picture as a relative , and I do feel natural interest and concern for my great-uncle . |
| 16 | I give all the children vitamin drops that I get from the clinic but I sometimes wonder whether they 're really necessary . |
| 17 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 18 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 19 | But also that any who might peruse this essay from a research perspective will feel that I have not been too cavalier in the implications that I draw from the results of their studies . |
| 20 | So I use the ordinary detergents that I keep in the cupboard for hand-washing and this works very well for me . |
| 21 | Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman : May I inform my right Hon. Friend that I lunch in the cafeteria every day ? |
| 22 | Indeed , now that I know about the Marmite and the teenage sons it seems more mysterious than ever . |
| 23 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 24 | There 's the flat cap that I use in the car , yeah ? |
| 25 | Not that I approve of the way some of the young people were dressed today . |
| 26 | The executives agreed and asked that I act as the facilitator . |
| 27 | ‘ I shall also be reviewing the way we get independent advice , so that the public will be able to see absolutely clearly that I act on the best possible evidence , without fear or favour . ’ |
| 28 | Milano is the variety that I regard as the standard among the enormous range of Italian salami . |
| 29 | However , not a penny will come from those places that I regard as the heart of military music — the forecourt of Buckingham Palace , Horse Guards Parade and the bandstands of towns and villages throughout the land . |
| 30 | so we could have reduced that , and I think that is the criticism that I make of the Conservatives , not that the Conservatives in this council have done that , but that they should be apologizing for it . |