Example sentences of "what i [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 2 | That 's what I mean about this bloody thing , that it does n't it straighten it . |
| 3 | I mean that 's what I mean about this hundred days , we 've been at war , and I think the job of the press , I mean is not |
| 4 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 5 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 6 | What I mean by this is the prevalence of the assumption that religion does not matter because it is not true — it is an illusion . |
| 7 | Because that 's really erm a part of what I mean by this criterion . |
| 8 | But that is what I like about this film . |
| 9 | Know what I like about this story ? |
| 10 | ‘ Remember what I said about this bed ? |
| 11 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
| 12 | All her own passion had died out of her : she felt deflated ; she had the desire to laugh , and she almost did as she said , ‘ Yes , I know what I want at this moment and that 's something to eat and then to get downstairs again , because , you know , it 's Father 's night for the club . ’ |
| 13 | That 's what I love about this business . |
| 14 | What I liked about this letter was the phrase ‘ if you tell me that I have it ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you know what I enjoy about this ? ’ he asks . |
| 16 | What I think at this moment Chairman is , is that route contains several setbacks |
| 17 | ‘ You know what I think about this ‘ protected species ’ business , ’ he said , reshuffling the logs , ‘ I think they 're protecting all the game for themselves so they can set up a hunter 's paradise for the rich — for foreigners and high-ranking government officials . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I think of this so-called special relationship . |
| 19 | Hermione Lee pinpoints what I feel about this novel — that although its subject is depression and waiting for death , it does not feel gloomy because of its own formal delight , its interest in language , including the contrasted languages of the sophisticated ‘ writer ’ , the Professor , a historian of the European exploration of America , and Tom Outland , the indigenous traveller , discovering the primeval inhabitants , but teaching himself to read Virgil , and thus exploring in the other direction . |
| 20 | For a moment Henry thought that this might be a genuine act of worship , a public act of love towards the vehicle ( I am not ashamed of what I feel about this car ! |
| 21 | You can either type your data into this form — which is what I did in this instance — or you can import data from an Excel or Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet or from a Delimited ASCII file . |
| 22 | I 'm not entirely clear what I do at this point . |
| 23 | ‘ I needed this piece and as I was looking around I saw exactly what I needed on this motor bike so I took it and now these guys want to kill me . ’ |