Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked earlier what those penalties might be , I was fobbed off with the answer that the matter would be referred to the industrial tribunal , and that the worker involved might receive some form of compensation . |
| 2 | When I back there I am sure I will have changed to a certain extent and I hope it will have helped to develop my managerial skills . ’ |
| 3 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 4 | As I tottered away I paused and addressed the big man 's back as he prepared for his next victim . |
| 5 | That night , I read again their separate accounts of Raasay , to see what I had missed : the streams of which Johnson wrote , ‘ one of the brooks turns a cornmill , and at least one produces trouts ’ ; , the garden , described by Boswell , ‘ plentifully stocked with vegetables , and strawberries , raspberries , currants , etc. ’ ; and a swift passing observation in one of Johnson 's letters to Hester Thrale , a reference he does not include in his official text . |
| 6 | I read somewhere there was something called bidding ? |
| 7 | But in 1974 , I made perhaps my most surprising discovery : Black holes are not completely black ! |
| 8 | Somebody 's slipped over and they 've got all the grit in their knuckles in the part of their knuckles and you want to bandage the hand or there 's a cut on the hand , even on the palm , we can do that one later when it 's really , when it 's really a gash , gushing blood we can do this afternoon , I repeat again none of these which you 've done this morning will control severe bleeding , get it into your heads this is just to cover to keep infection out , alright , these are not to control severe bleeding just covering a minor wound or a graze , right ? |
| 9 | Erm you 've put me on the spot I do n't I do n't I 've really I 've really got no preference on them . |
| 10 | Let , let us leave it till then because I mean otherwise we 're gon na get bogged down in this and whe when we really are briefing procedures . |
| 11 | I mean otherwise he should n't be the Managing Director , he should n't be the Chairman of the Board . |
| 12 | But if he 's wrong I mean you ca n't just come back and be contentious if you 're wrong cos I mean otherwise you know it 's , it 's of no pr of no work . |
| 13 | But I mean otherwise it 's got all the , all the good points in there , it 's a pity that councils do n't have these meaningful names |
| 14 | Yes , yes I mean unconsciously they will happen |
| 15 | Well er I mean eventually we 'd have to think of something . |
| 16 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |
| 17 | I mean either we 're not there or there 's too many of us there . |
| 18 | but surely , but surely I mean surely they 'll be able to restore the housing benefit |
| 19 | I mean surely you could have a point eight for crystal and still solder ? |
| 20 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 21 | I mean surely there are people in the careers ser |
| 22 | I mean honestly you 'd have thought they were building a ruddy house there would n't you ? |
| 23 | I mean nowadays everybody has vitamin pills whether they need them or not . |
| 24 | I mean nowadays you 'd have a Thomas splint on it you see ? |
| 25 | It 's an interval you 'd never see but I mean theoretically you could have that . |
| 26 | Well , I mean indirectly I suppose . |
| 27 | I mean luckily you , you know , you 'd gone on a car , with a car so it 's a matter of throwing everything in the back and just going |
| 28 | I mean you buy it you 're not gon na , I mean alright you 're gon na have a bit more grown but you 're only gon na get a bit more muscly . |
| 29 | I mean alright she , we have n't phoned each other but I mean the thing is half of her she 's just so naive with mother . |
| 30 | I mean increasingly we see that we 're , we get more constables here more constables there , but they do n't ever appear to be actually out on the streets , and until we can get more men on the streets with the deterrent effect that their appearance has , let alone anything else , we are not gon na get much further . |