Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb base] [prep] the " 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 | Suddenly I see in the calm of the garden a change , as though time has slowed . |
7 | Only I know of the old door hidden behind a crumbling shed . |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | So I wash in the morning here and bathe when the others have all gone out . |
10 | So I hate like the winter . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |
14 | So I mean in the wash |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | So I go to the table and pot yellow one-handed , green , brown , blue , pink and black — all one-handed . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | so I tap on the window , had just gone past and I was just about to go in his room , you know , cos he 's standing there and I just tapped on the window come outside Nick had just walked by and Rick and were talking you know it 's not like the dead of night and everything 's quiet |
23 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
24 | My reaction probably seems polite and restrained , but inside I explode with the feelings voiced by Hugh Macdiarmid : ‘ Scotland , small ? |
25 | Anyway I read in the programme that Whyte has definitely gone to Birmingham City for 1/4 million . |
26 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
27 | Meanwhile I rejoice in the survival of those large , landed properties where life goes on more or less as before . |
28 | Meanwhile I give below the dates of the next open days at Larksoken so that as many of us as possible can attend and strenuously put our case against nuclear power during the question time which normally precedes the actual tour of the station . ’ |
29 | Indication can be quivertip or butt indicator and generally I wait for the reel to revolve slowly so I know it is not a line bite . |
30 | The WEA takes its pattern partly from the history of the movement but quite largely I think from the county in which it is implanted . |