Example sentences of "what i [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | See , see what I mean about the board , it you know with the |
2 | Framsden mill and its environs will illustrate what I mean about the compactness and self-sufficiency of the rural villages in East Anglia . |
3 | If you 've followed the plot so far , you 'll see what I mean about the conglomeration of bits and pieces from different instruments that have been amassed for this guitar . |
4 | Then there is The Delectation Sinistrorse — a girdle of VS standard ( see what I mean about the dictionary ! ) |
5 | Before going on to analyse the kinds of blocking technique one might nevertheless use , I want to briefly explain what I mean by the terms ‘ open ’ and ‘ closed ’ sides when referring to a stance . |
6 | What I mean by the stylistics of representation concerns the connection between individual features of the language of a text and individual features of its content , an interest which is much more characteristic of modern approaches to literature . |
7 | Yeah but she 's got more hair than what I got in the front . |
8 | Oh that 's what I got in the shop . |
9 | What I remember of the housing conditions when I was then residing in Motherwell , a mining er community . |
10 | Even if I was paid twice what I get at the cafe , I still would n't bloody stick at home all day . |
11 | I am sick , sick in my head like you see me yesterday , for what I hear in the night . |
12 | I now come to what I regard as the plaintiffs ' most convincing argument , namely , that paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , combined with the letter dated 23 October 1991 from the Crown Prosecution Service , provides effective protection for the defendants against the criminal consequences of having to disclose incriminating information or documents by virtue of paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order . |
13 | What I gather from the photo reproduced in Il Giornale dell'Arte is that my sin consists of using hanging cloths . |
14 | There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there . |
15 | I accept that one can make some criticisms about Labour local authorities , but what I dislike about the Secretary of State 's usual contribution is that it is so cliche d , simplistic and grotesque . |
16 | Yeah I was sure that 's what our team wrote down cos that 's what I wrote on the sheet |
17 | He took it up and read : ‘ Many readers will probably have learned by now that I am being sued by Miss Hilary Robarts , the Acting Administrative Officer at Larksoken Power Station , for alleged libel arising from what I wrote in the May issue of the news-sheet . |
18 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
19 | But I 've been in the wood for many years and there is a lot more to read than what I keep in the shaman 's lodge . |
20 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
21 | Ca n't remember what I put in the box , another picture I think . |
22 | But now this week , from what I put in the paper it 's obvious that we 're traders |
23 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
24 | ‘ From … from what I gathered from the nurse it was n't as serious as they at first thought . |
25 | A silly man , I ca n't understand , cos you used to get in a car now what I went in the car Sunday , well it the |
26 | What I like about the system is that it does n't shout its presence to human interlopers : what do you do when your anti-predator device is preyed upon by the local villain ? |
27 | As far as I can tell , we have some sort of unspoken agreement that I keep quiet about not officially existing in return for being able to do more or less as I like on the island and buy more or less what I like in the town . |
28 | What I learnt of the Al Fayeds settled one question but raised another . |
29 | Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards . |
30 | That 's just what I said during the news interview , was n't it ? |