Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to a certain extent I have just said them . |
| 2 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean with a high bird , ’ he amended . |
| 4 | I mean with a medical certificate . ’ |
| 5 | No they 're not gon na exploit their own workers but surely the , the , the whole idea of the build up towards land reform is that you are making , I mean in a Marxist sense it 's the only way in which you can do it is , is you make progress through conflict . |
| 6 | I mean in a different town , not just |
| 7 | I must explain that and I eat in a special compartment , screened from the other foreign friends , who pay for their own meals . |
| 8 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 9 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 10 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 11 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 12 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
| 13 | I smell like a major operation . |
| 14 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 15 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 16 | To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day . |
| 17 | But I relax with a good book whenever possible . |
| 18 | while directly above I bend to a bottom drawer |
| 19 | I put in a square bracket on the minutes |
| 20 | ‘ I put in a TOP TIP about it and got the go-ahead to install Kan-Krushers at 18 different points on the site . |
| 21 | And I suppose he that 's an area where one is worried about quantity and quality because it 's in a way you can always provide more quantity I imagine at a lesser cost by going into a conurbation than you can by going into rural areas . |
| 22 | I should make it clear at the outset that I act as a parliamentary consultant to the Professional Association of Teachers and that much of what I shall say tonight will be based on the practical experience of PAT members . |
| 23 | I act in a consultative capacity to the Brits , when it comes to pools and patio windows . |
| 24 | I walk through a cut-price version of the groves of academe , a concrete path overhung by jacaranda trees , set in a termite-ravaged lawn . |
| 25 | They tell me if I walk in a certain direction for an hour I 'll come across a road and by the time I set my watch and compass they 've vanished over the dunes . |
| 26 | ‘ I depend on a manual wheelchair for all movement away from my car . |
| 27 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 28 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 29 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 30 | In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’ |