Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [subord] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just wait until I get the time and I 'll show them who 's boss … but I 'd better not wait too long ! |
| 2 | If you think that hurt , just wait until I get the hang of it . ’ |
| 3 | And yet with each succeeding year both my guilt and inferiority somehow diminish as I witness the old country ways vanish . |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 5 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
| 6 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing , now as another ’ , Wittgenstein imagines someone like Locke — though he does not mention Locke — saying that ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means ‘ I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Please wait until I start the bidding . ’ |