Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 2 | I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat . |
| 3 | NOT and I repeat NOT the main carriage , as someone I know once did ! |
| 4 | Well I suppose you see maybe what they 're trying to do I mean as far as I know I mean previously the Inland Revenue or the valuation office part of the Inland Revenue they actually used to run a scheme where |
| 5 | mhm Well I think it can go from anything , I mean just a vague feeling of suddenly being put off what you 're talking about because you 've suddenly become conscious of how you 're looking . |
| 6 | I mean just a friendly little party . |
| 7 | I mean even the simple things , the hard data like annual mileage , is clearly an area of debate because you and Cynthia would argue different points you know . |
| 8 | Nobody in industry has actually got an absolute guarantee , I mean even the British Telecom schemes said they 'll pay , they 'll pay the rate of inflation if they feel they can afford . |
| 9 | It does n't supersede that in any way , and obviously if people do run into problems I mean normally a major problem in the first three months or three thousand miles is taken back to the dealer anyway . |
| 10 | I mean certainly the social services now divide up a bit . |
| 11 | I mean erm presumably I mean obviously the local authority has its own people |
| 12 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 13 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 14 | I mean deliberately the actual community itself was set up , so it does have representation from the , the community . |
| 15 | But , you know i I mean actually the other , the other aspect of it Anne if you , if you pull this out you could be talking about hosting small conferences and that |
| 16 | they charged me thirty six quid for a plus V A T , plus a fiver till I bring back the other one . |
| 17 | And I bring back the livin' herbs , some overproof rum , some italvital dubplates and some duty-free ribbed condoms . |
| 18 | I make not a party-political point , but one which shows the reality of not having proper consultations on the time scale for implementing such a major piece of legislation . |
| 19 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker it 's also quite important that I make clear the Labour party 's position in respect to the article which calls for uniform electoral procedures to be set up for elections to the European parliament . |
| 20 | I make out the sunk foundations |
| 21 | Now that 's much easier to do it on paper than if I say well the only way to find is let's get sixty pennies out , you count sixty I 'll count another sixty then we 'll see how many we 've got . |
| 22 | To improve the quality of our work , these are erm , when I say though the current position is the technical quality is variable , these this assessment comes from internal reviews which are carried out and we have annual quality control reviews in all parts of the of the practice and the answers that have been come back coming back from those quality control reviews have and they 're pretty strict reviews it seems , strictly in accordance with the book , strictly in accordance with all the reg rules and regulations and , so if one has deviated from those and it 's hardly surprising how very high standards B S five seven five O would have , be quite easy to obtain in most of our practice areas , so it 's hardly surprising that there will be occasions when we do n't actually er come up with ten out of ten on a on an assignment . |
| 23 | I cook quite a reasonable steak . ’ |
| 24 | I want instead a humane , moral , critical , and intelligent , culture of dissent , which would deploy political energies in very different ways . |
| 25 | I gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |
| 26 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 27 | I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it . |
| 28 | So I cut out a straight section of wire coat hanger , heated one end until it was cherry red , hammered it flat , then , when it cooled , filed the edges smooth and drilled a small hole in it . |
| 29 | I put on a tremendous act . |
| 30 | Although she is now slim , Liz confesses to a terrible struggle with her weight , which makes peasant-style clothes , such as Monsoon 's glorious Tibetan embroidered skirt ( see page 16 ) particularly good for her : ‘ I put on a great deal of weight after the twins were born , and when I started diving , it became very obvious because fat floats , so you have to balance your weight with extra diving weights . |