Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's self employment so the couriers that we er supplied with the parcels with are the p- umm er , they 're liable for tax and insurance if any is due , I mean earn a certain amount of money before you start |
| 2 | I mean said the other day , Why do n't you pack up this stupid idea of picketing . |
| 3 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 4 | Like , you got , I mean put the other side of the . |
| 5 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 6 | Cos I mean get a good deal |
| 7 | By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … . |
| 8 | But it is n't enough to write well ( I mean choose the right words and so on ) to be a good writer . |
| 9 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 10 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 11 | [ I intend pursuing the other objectives this Autumn . ] |
| 12 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
| 13 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 14 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 15 | I intend to uncover the old boy system where everybody covers up when cases like this arise . |
| 16 | If I do not get a satisfactory reply I intend to pursue every possible means to draw the public 's attention to this iniquitous state of affairs , which for a big company like P & O is an absolute disgrace . |
| 17 | The red chair where I sit has a long seat , comfortable for a tall person . |
| 18 | Perhaps I should n't interfere but I hate to see a young man throwing his life away . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I hate to see a decent man making a mess of his life . |
| 20 | ‘ I hate to bring the real world into this , but is your room-mate going to pop in at any second ? ’ |
| 21 | Usually when designing pictures I tend to use a particular leaf or flower because of its shape , colour or texture , and pay no attention to its species or variety . |
| 22 | I tend to take the beautiful surroundings of the mikva for granted ; in my local mikva , the private bathrooms which lead in total privacy into one of two mikvas are beautifully decorated and colour co-ordinated , centrally heated with modern power-showers and flouncy floral curtains all around . |
| 23 | I tend to live a normal life . |
| 24 | I tend to keep a tight rein at first , and gradually relax as I get to know them . |
| 25 | If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade . |
| 26 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 27 | Over the coming months I expect to see the Inland Revenue , the Customs and Excise and the DTI increasingly at work in an area ripe for their activities . |
| 28 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 29 | Something fell in greenhouse and broke the pane to allow the wind to get into the greenhouse , which is oh dear me , as soon as the wind got into the greenhouse as I say blowing the other panes out |
| 30 | Instead , I propose to illustrate the distinctive nature of the British polity by comparing it , where appropriate , with the American . |