Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
| 2 | ‘ But Mr Carson said ‘ Are you going to make me sit down ? ’ |
| 3 | mummy me sit down and , and |
| 4 | You nearly ripped me head off earlier . |
| 5 | I forgot to leave me penknife so she ripped me head off . |
| 6 | Ca can I just say one thing , though , if you me nip out , it 's not that I do n't want to listen to this , er , it 's in connection with the property er worries that er , Geoffrey said , I 've got to sign a lot of er , arm twisting letters , which I , they want me to sign today , so if I can take five minutes out to sign those , I hope you will not feel I 'm trying to er skive off , as it were . |
| 7 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
| 8 | I chip in . |
| 9 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
| 10 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 11 | ‘ As soon as I track down Carol , I 'm free . |
| 12 | I change out of my pyjamas into them to write |
| 13 | In Chapter 14 I sketch out the fundamentals of a structuralist theory of truth . |
| 14 | I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat . |
| 15 | I grin back . |
| 16 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 17 | I cash in on my sex appeal I take all the credit I give you the |
| 18 | See now what his power is , for the day when I sate down before Juballa I had no more than four loaves of bread , and now by God 's mercy I have won Valencia . |
| 19 | erm I mean up , are we prepared to go up to five thousand ? |
| 20 | There was twenty week club you see and I do n't know , I mean up until recently I was in the credit when we used to have credit . |
| 21 | the Russian have fucking one of the most powerful forces , I mean up until the Stalingrad in Moscow , the , the battle of Stalingrad they did n't know if they at all . |
| 22 | but I mean up until Stalingrad that was it , the , the Russian army was nothing , right , but as soon as Stalingrad came in every day |
| 23 | I mean on there , how far have you got ? |
| 24 | So you go , I mean round here is that ? |
| 25 | But I mean round there it 's absolutely steeped in history . |
| 26 | Oh yeah very good I mean round of applause everybody come on . |
| 27 | And I mean over the years you can sort of pick a sample out and say ‘ It 's pretty close , this one ’ ; or , y'know , ‘ Do something about it ’ , there and then , if you think there is anything that can be done . |
| 28 | I mean in , in he did n't leave it all over the yard and all that you know . |
| 29 | I think , I think that in any , I mean in , in , in , if you wan na , if you wan na look at it in terms I mean I think labour it it 's always gon na have to be there and I think the biological constraints put the you know , sharpened device |
| 30 | So far as the B T U Tax is concerned , erm it 's really a political issue as to where the administration or the Congress in the end decide to place the tax , I mean in very simple terms the nearer you place it to the consumer , the more effective it is , but the less politically palatable it is which because consumers vote and oil companies do n't an and so er I think it will be political pressure to push it nearer to the well head which will be less good for the oil and gas producers . |