Example sentences of "i [verb] [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 asked for the usual guarantees — that the object would n't endanger my ship or anyone on it , and that carrying it would breach no SenFed laws . |
| 3 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 4 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 5 | I doubled to the other side of the deck and joined the Sergeant Major and Brigadier Mills Roberts . |
| 6 | I doubled across the cobbled yard and stood in the middle of the road to watch the jeeps disappear in the distance in a cloud of dust . |
| 7 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 8 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 9 | As regards finding more ‘ absolute ’ tempo area indications for automatic mechanical instruments : there are mechanical noises on the recordings I made of the 1793 and undated Niemecz mechanical organs associated with the turning of these instruments ' flywheels . |
| 10 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 11 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
| 12 | To those who point to Britain 's right , under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , to choose not to be part of the Single Currency , I recommend a passing glance at a passage in a speech I made in the closing stages of the second reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 . |
| 13 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 14 | And was that sublime trip I made around the celestial skyline embracing the deep recesses of Cwm Llan just a dream ? |
| 15 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 16 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That afternoon she and I devised in the small front room of our lodgings ( pliant landlady , audience of children ) a double act : the Carruthers Sisters . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well I mean to the untrained eye with a , this guy was suspicious when he saw all this cracked varnish |
| 21 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 22 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 23 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 , |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I do n't mean just on Road incidentally , I mean on the whole range of traffic calming demands . |