Example sentences of "is what i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well this is what I know of her but if you really have to Well I 'm no Granny ! |
| 2 | There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there . |
| 3 | So the little sketchbook doodles I made from the car might be all that is needed : a few slight marks pointing to the lack of incident in a country where you can travel a long way without seeming to get anywhere — which is what I felt about my own artistic journey . |
| 4 | ‘ This look is what I had in mind . ’ |
| 5 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 6 | ‘ I met new clients which is what I went for . ’ |
| 7 | This is what I hate about politics , it 's just . |
| 8 | That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have . |
| 9 | All I can make out is what I take to be the outer port engine and that 's no help at all . |
| 10 | This is what I mean by protection — we did not run away from the terrible topic : the use of projection allowed us to face cancer . |
| 11 | This is what I mean by saying that reforms within the system of utilisation will not change the system in any fundamental way . |
| 12 | ‘ It is what I mean by hazard . |
| 13 | That is what I mean by making fear your friend . |
| 14 | That is what I mean by taking stock . |
| 15 | This political response is what I refer to as labourism . |
| 16 | This is what I said to him this is what I said to him an but he said I I see you with all your get up and go so I did n't make any reply to that . |
| 17 | This is what I said to him this is what I said to him an but he said I I see you with all your get up and go so I did n't make any reply to that . |
| 18 | I do n't like the idea of Ventolin this is what I said to them at the hospital that I ca n't , cos I 'm not on |
| 19 | Epictetus said , ‘ This is what I wish to be engaged in when death finds me , so that I may be able to say to God , ‘ Have I in any respect transgressed Thy commands ? |
| 20 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
| 21 | This is what I meant by ‘ built-in unfairness ’ , and by ‘ asymmetry in the cost of failure ’ . |
| 22 | Each has the same environment as do the atoms or molecules in a crystal ( that is what I meant by saying that this sort of structure represents simple ordering ) , and each is attached to its neighbours in exactly the same way . |
| 23 | the OBJECT is the TOPIC in sentence 3 : " The meat is what I cut for mother " . |
| 24 | But that is what I like about this film . |
| 25 | This is what I like about him . |
| 26 | This is what I got at erm in Exeter . |
| 27 | Yeah which is what I got from my doctors actually . |
| 28 | Er , you see wh when I 'm tr when I 'm speaking in favour of today 's women this is what I look at . |
| 29 | I say he because that is what I think of , though it could be they or even she . |
| 30 | We 're gon na play these tapes in my car tonight , have a good laugh , especially if somebody does turn up , I 'll say here are listen to this , this is what I think of about all at work today , what I 'm gon na do , mm she 'll say come on then , better get on with it , and I 'll go , yeah |