Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 2 | I asked for the usual guarantees — that the object would n't endanger my ship or anyone on it , and that carrying it would breach no SenFed laws . |
| 3 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 4 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 5 | I doubled to the other side of the deck and joined the Sergeant Major and Brigadier Mills Roberts . |
| 6 | I doubled across the cobbled yard and stood in the middle of the road to watch the jeeps disappear in the distance in a cloud of dust . |
| 7 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 8 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 9 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 10 | To those who point to Britain 's right , under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , to choose not to be part of the Single Currency , I recommend a passing glance at a passage in a speech I made in the closing stages of the second reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 . |
| 11 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 12 | And was that sublime trip I made around the celestial skyline embracing the deep recesses of Cwm Llan just a dream ? |
| 13 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 14 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 15 | Well I mean to the untrained eye with a , this guy was suspicious when he saw all this cracked varnish |
| 16 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 17 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 18 | Erm but I mean on the other hand if you start trying to develop your criteria , and I 'd go out and look at Botton Village and look at the Richmond Fellowship or something , |
| 19 | I do n't mean just on Road incidentally , I mean on the whole range of traffic calming demands . |
| 20 | I mean on the seaward side ? ’ |
| 21 | But I mean in the actual downstairs , in the living room |
| 22 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 23 | I mean in the neural network terms we just use a summation function . |
| 24 | Er , I mean in the olden days , they used , they they usually the sent to the colonies or , sent into the army or or into religion , were n't they . |
| 25 | I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force . |
| 26 | I mean after the armed police officers but before you ? |
| 27 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 28 | But I have to confess that what I save on the weedless swings , I lose on the rampant roundabouts . |
| 29 | Four years ago , I argued with the then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security about the Fowler review , which led to cuts in income support . |
| 30 | As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) . |