Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If you really want a cigarette very badly I think on the whole I should prefer you to have one , ’ Ivy told him .
2 However little I care for the way you live , I shall concede that as long as you get your facts right , sense flavours and textures with accuracy and discrimination , think out the implications of your choices , are not deceived about your desires and ambitions , you may do as you please .
3 Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables .
4 Mostly I play with the clean channel on full crunch and the lead channel on 16 .
5 Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money .
6 replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) .
7 Suddenly I see in the calm of the garden a change , as though time has slowed .
8 Only I know of the old door hidden behind a crumbling shed .
9 Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me .
10 ‘ Piano Song ’ , for instance , includes lines like ‘ My vulnerability rushes up to me ’ and ‘ The deeper I delve into the conciousness of me and you ’ , which sound as though they have been selected from a random computer-search for meaningful phrases in a dictionary of pretension .
11 So I wash in the morning here and bathe when the others have all gone out .
12 So I put on a coat .
13 So I hate like the winter .
14 But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent .
15 I mean , fixed rates are dangerous because once you 've fixed , if interest rates then go up , you 've lost out on your er return and you ca n't get your money out anyway , so I mean at the moment it 's really erm er er very deeply into the cycle of low , of low interest rates .
16 So I mean from a couple of bits of information we could tell they had sheep , they probably ate them , teeth marks on it , things like that .
17 and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with
18 So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the .
19 So I mean in the wash
20 So I go on the same as er , weeks two to four an analysis written , and , or drawn or made of examples on one of these themes .
21 Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me .
22 So I go to the table and pot yellow one-handed , green , brown , blue , pink and black — all one-handed .
23 There is no deck chair for me so I sit on the lawn at Ma 's feet and draw some barley water up the straw , gently so as not to disturb Pa who is reading .
24 And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel .
25 So I think about a hundred and fifty pounds
26 So I think for the time being , if you allow us , we will find out which tables we want and then we will fund raise for them and get the money for them , okay .
27 so I think in a way it would be quite nice to sit down with somebody from each of the colleges to hammer out the syllabus because Napier will see it from Napier 's point of view about what 's easiest for them to teach and what this and what the other whereas I suspect if you also sat down with and and people you might get a broader discussion base
28 Erm so I think in the m er in the lit in the middle of it you actually lost some of it , erm and then you came back to the , to the referrals erm tt so that was that .
29 So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure , and no doubt it does me good .
30 If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented .
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