Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | much do you want on that if you see what I mean to describe about dreams that |
| 2 | The healing process — I mean working through things like guilt and remorse — that 's all really valuable . |
| 3 | Madam Speaker , this is a job summit and I intend to talk about jobs . |
| 4 | I hate staying in hotels , they 're so impersonal , and this is rather spectacular . |
| 5 | I hate to listen to guitarists rattle off rubbish about ‘ the only thing that matters is the story of the song ’ because that 's just a bunch of crap ! |
| 6 | Actually I hate playing in shops . |
| 7 | er , I hate driving on motorways ! |
| 8 | I hate talking in offices . |
| 9 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 10 | But after a pause he went on to add , ‘ Except for kids , I hate going to post-mortems for kids ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 21 ) . |
| 11 | In photography , I tend to work with clients who 've heard me talk or seen my work , so they know my agenda . |
| 12 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 13 | As evidence of that , I want to refer to comments of Mr. Colin Webster , the marketing director of National Power . |
| 14 | If I want to sleep with boys I like , then that 's my business . |
| 15 | But at the same time I want to go to parties . |
| 16 | & sup1 ; I want to talk about reactions to the report and to highlight a few issues which have arisen since it was written . |
| 17 | This week I want to talk about subjects . |
| 18 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 19 | I want to get off drugs ? |
| 20 | I shall say more of this a little later on , but for now I want to concentrate on aspects of privatisation . |
| 21 | I 'm not sure now whether I want to work with adults , or children , or mentally or physically handicapped people . |
| 22 | I want to work in films . ’ |
| 23 | Now I want to look at teachers ' lives from a particular point of view. : that what our hypothetical observer is actually witnessing is people coping , in a great variety of ways , with stress . |
| 24 | when I want to look at prices . |
| 25 | I let go of things a bit . |
| 26 | I clutch my wad of sketches that , one day , I hope to turn into pictures that might somehow express the essence of this strange topsy-turvy continent where , believe it or not , there are birds that are scared of heights . |
| 27 | The first is spoken by Wilekin , the remaining two by Dame Sirith : ( " Lady , as I hope to live until nones , I also am ready and well prepared to do all that you say . |
| 28 | I happen to believe in miracles , but it would be sheer folly to depend on them . |
| 29 | I am now sixteen and like most sixteen year old girls I enjoy shopping for clothes and shoes . |
| 30 | I 've been involved in community projects and I can say I enjoy going into schools , but at the end of the day there will always need to be the regulated type of policing of crime and violence . |