Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | Now what I mean by an easy question something like |
8 | I must explain that and I eat in a special compartment , screened from the other foreign friends , who pay for their own meals . |
9 | 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 … |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
14 | I smell like a major operation . |
15 | ‘ But will my lady allow me to share her bed tonight if I smell like an unwashed ram ? ’ |
16 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
17 | 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 |
18 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
19 | 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 . |
20 | But I relax with a good book whenever possible . |
21 | while directly above I bend to a bottom drawer |
22 | I put in a square bracket on the minutes |
23 | ‘ I put in a TOP TIP about it and got the go-ahead to install Kan-Krushers at 18 different points on the site . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | I act in a consultative capacity to the Brits , when it comes to pools and patio windows . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water . |
30 | ‘ I depend on a manual wheelchair for all movement away from my car . |