Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 2 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
| 3 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 4 | ‘ They do n't live together — I mean not in the same place , ’ he added conscientiously . |
| 5 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 6 | I mean out of the three that he saw and prefer , I must admit he did prefer forty four . |
| 7 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 8 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 9 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 10 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 11 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 12 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 13 | And the handsomest Celt on earth kneels before me while I sit snugly in the big armchair , the best armchair . |
| 14 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 15 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 16 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 17 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 18 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 19 | I disagree fundamentally with the hon. Gentleman . |
| 20 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 21 | I put up with the small pricking claws . |
| 22 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 23 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |
| 24 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 25 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 26 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
| 27 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
| 28 | I sidle up to the older cop . |
| 29 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 30 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |