Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 2 | I commend to the people who want to send Monsignor Kent to the stake the self explanatory activity of the British Nuclear Forum . |
| 3 | It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four |
| 4 | Well the , the risk has changed for a start I mean with the chemicals there are so many now erm chemicals and so much of it being transported by road , the risk of that and the dangers of accidents must be increased , although legislation has brought in a number of improvements , so firemen have to be very much up to date with that . |
| 5 | you actually exchange , as soon as you 've exchanged contracts we 've got to get insured you see but erm I mean on the letter we got from the solicitor on Saturday it said , it , it looks as though your purchaser 's ready to exchange contracts in the forthcoming week |
| 6 | I bought along this brochure , you can have a copy if you like but I mean at the back there are forty five institutions all virtually paddling their own canoe . |
| 7 | I mean at the moment we ca n't . |
| 8 | We do n't want pe I mean we do n't want sales reps agreeing to allocations I mean at the moment we have n't got anybody to administer them it 's being done by groups it 's going to be a nightmare in a big way |
| 9 | I mean at the moment they 've got it short , but they have it long here and long at the back and then everywhere else short , short back and sides |
| 10 | I mean at the moment there 's an awful lot of pressure on women , I mean social pressure , to respond to flirtations and sexual overtures in a way that does n't hurt the feelings of the young men , and women of that age |
| 11 | I mean , fixed rates are dangerous because once you 've fixed , if interest rates then go up , you 've lost out on your er return and you ca n't get your money out anyway , so I mean at the moment it 's really erm er er very deeply into the cycle of low , of low interest rates . |
| 12 | I mean at the moment it just evades it . |
| 13 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 14 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
| 15 | you know , but I mean at the moment I keep , he 's coming home some nights and , you know it like , he 'll come home and say I had a really good morning the kids were great , but as for the afternoon , and like he said when you 're teaching you 're only as good as your last lesson , you know |
| 16 | Oh yes , er yes they were , they were er of course there was a great divide there I mean between the Liberals I mean they were the only two parties in those days . |
| 17 | I mean I mean during the week she never , she 's going to get to the stage except that Chris is taking Amy to ballet , she wo n't see Neighbours at all . |
| 18 | That 's the point where we go wrong — I mean in the way we think about eternity . |
| 19 | But I mean in the meantime we 're quite happy quite happy carrying with with the silly little letterhead that I 've got cos it says |
| 20 | I mean in the meantime I 'll be |
| 21 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |
| 22 | I mean in the end he 's talking about they 've got the supreme authority but er but not actually yet even though he talks about revolution they 're not actually seizing the land unless they actually think the landlord 's done something wrong like erm rents or whatever . |
| 23 | Yeah yeah well it sounds sounds as though it 's possible you know you may have to I mean in the end you might have to sort of compromise it and actually do this valuation thing . |
| 24 | I mean by the piece I 'm reading you today , I 've already submitted to the B B C and if I sell it |
| 25 | I mean by the time you get to a two years . |
| 26 | Let me try I was wondering why he was doing it then I realized on the tape she done that in n it . |
| 27 | I lived in the village myself and waited for my students to arrive . |
| 28 | Congress , I 'm a Labour Councillor and whenever I sit on the Council I also ask Conservative members to declare their interest before they speak on an issue , so I better declare mine . |
| 29 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 30 | I passed over the cheque my landlord had given me . |