Example sentences of "what i [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That 's what I mean get some exercise in your legs . |
2 | ‘ I know , ’ I said , ‘ that he wants what I have , and also what I hope to have one day . ’ |
3 | I see what I eat means one thing , but I eat what I see means something very different . ’ |
4 | Yeah and that 's what I put call this number now , all credit cards accepted and that was it and then stop and oh and have you tried the new so and so , buy it now or phone so and so , all credit cards accepted . |
5 | What I 've done these interviews knowing about your subject , I do n't have to agree my council 's policy , but I and I understand how people feel upset about X , so that 's trying to get the message across , you know people are upset , you can understand they 're upset , but you 're not actually compromising yourself or , because you 're being interviewed as the council spokesman , you 're not compromising the position of the council . |
6 | Well I 've sort of got a note to say who did what this week , so I could tell you what I 've done this week and then you could tell me what you 've done this week . |
7 | Oh , it 's brilliant you know I mean er , I 've I 've telling him what I 've doing this week . |
8 | What I 've got enough leave to take the time off over Christmas . |
9 | And that 's what I 've bought this year . |
10 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
11 | Well I hope you enjoyed this morning now what I want to do this afternoon , we 're gon na break for lunch now and then can we reconvene at the syndicate rooms at two o'clock |
12 | That is what I want to do this morning . |
13 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
14 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
15 | That 's what I want to get that number off you for that as well because I some would suggest anyway |
16 | Not that what I say makes any difference , because these two are still eyeing each other like welterweights at the weigh-in , and Darius stands between them like a referee . |
17 | ‘ This is what I think happened that night . |
18 | Here , this suggestion is extended to cover what I have called invisible metaphors : that is , those metaphoric forms in which one domain is not linguistically realised on the surface of the text , and therefore has to be inferred . |
19 | For our present purposes , there are two main senses in which the inner-city phonology can be said to be complicated : first , there is a much higher degree of ‘ low-level ’ allophonic variation in the inner-city than in outer areas , resulting in a wide range of variation and frequent overlap between phonemes ; yet , this variation can be shown to be rule-governed ; second , there is a high incidence of what I have called phono-lexical alternation ( as measured in variables of type 2b ) in the inner-city , which is much reduced in outer-city communities . |
20 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
21 | Of course , it could be argued that what I have called secondary danger clues correspond to the facts about child abuse discovered by a number of studies within the disease model . |
22 | Sinclair , for example , is in no doubt that recent developments in what I have called token description require a radical revision of principles of descriptive procedure in general , and have profound implications for language pedagogy in particular : |
23 | And as I become … and as I remain … more relaxed … and less tense each day … so I will develop much more confidence in myself … more confidence in my ability to do … not only what I have to do each day … more confidence in my ability to do whatever I ought to be able to do … without fear of failure … without fear of consequences … without unnecessary anxiety … without uneasiness . |
24 | My best performance is still to come and I am clear in what I have to do this season . ’ |
25 | I repeat what I have said many times : I do not know of any person who pays taxes out of anything other than income . |
26 | I certainly can not go beyond what I have said this afternoon and on earlier occasions , including what I have told the hon. Gentleman in the Select Committee , about the guarantee of SERPS rights — to put it in shorthand terms — in respect of the guaranteed minimum pension . |
27 | But one simple fact emerges , namely that there are innumerable interconnections between the cells in one small region , which , of course , only reinforces what I have said several times already , namely that the neocortex talks a lot to itself . |
28 | Jody perhaps you could like would like to think , if you want us to listen to your playing this afternoon I would like you to listen to what I have to say this morning please . |
29 | The central provisions of the Constitution are listed in Table 4.1 : parliamentary sovereignty , the rule of law , a unitary ( as opposed to a federal ) system , and what I have termed parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy . |
30 | And if not , yet I will not spare of what I have sworn touching Parfois . |