Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 2 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 3 | I repeat to the right hon. Gentleman that I have said no such thing , and neither in context has my right hon. Friend the Chancellor . |
| 4 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 5 | Well I mean to the untrained eye with a , this guy was suspicious when he saw all this cracked varnish |
| 6 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 7 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 8 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 9 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 10 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 11 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 12 | Erm but I mean on the other hand if you start trying to develop your criteria , and I 'd go out and look at Botton Village and look at the Richmond Fellowship or something , |
| 13 | Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it . |
| 14 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 15 | I do n't mean just on Road incidentally , I mean on the whole range of traffic calming demands . |
| 16 | I mean on the seaward side ? ’ |
| 17 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
| 18 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 19 | But I , I mean through the nineteen fifties there is a reasonable measure of co-operation between the Russians and the Chinese and then from the beginning of the nineteen sixties and onwards there is conflict between Russia and China . |
| 20 | But I mean in the actual downstairs , in the living room |
| 21 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 22 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 23 | I mean in the neural network terms we just use a summation function . |
| 24 | But I mean in the fifties , sixties |
| 25 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |
| 26 | I think companies well in fact B and Q erm recently announced that er not recently I mean in the last eighteen months they 've started to have their er stores erm |
| 27 | Er , I mean in the olden days , they used , they they usually the sent to the colonies or , sent into the army or or into religion , were n't they . |
| 28 | I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force . |
| 29 | I mean after the armed police officers but before you ? |
| 30 | But I have to confess that what I save on the weedless swings , I lose on the rampant roundabouts . |