Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 2 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 3 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
| 4 | erm , no I mean apart from the concrete it helps to fill the hole |
| 5 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
| 6 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
| 7 | ‘ They do n't live together — I mean not in the same place , ’ he added conscientiously . |
| 8 | You can have Piers , not literally , I mean just on the tape . |
| 9 | I mean even at the risk of probably er the other suppliers making a bit more than us if it means that . |
| 10 | I mean even with the market being depressed there 's still gon na be eight hundred pounds in there . |
| 11 | Yes but surely they thought that through before they got to the stage that I mean even with the mortgage |
| 12 | I mean conceivably on the tail end of policy H one yesterday , the new settlement is n't going to accommodate all the development needs of Greater York . |
| 13 | I mean obviously on the whole he ca n't guarantee what sort of priest we 're going to get , but the whole meeting was quite positive . |
| 14 | I mean out of the three that he saw and prefer , I must admit he did prefer forty four . |
| 15 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 16 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 17 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 18 | I eat alone in the dining room and the next morning set off early back to Mr Shah 's hotel . |
| 19 | I remain continually on the look-out for unusual behaviour from inanimate objects . |
| 20 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
| 21 | Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure . |
| 22 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
| 23 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 24 | When I sit here with the laibon and his family I feel envious of their flimsy values . |
| 25 | As I sit here in the dark in , what is , after all , an artist 's home , writing by the light of the overhead lamp , I can see the shapes and colours and forms and the old excited feelings are returning . |
| 26 | But I realize , as I sit here in the offices of the Strategy Unit , away from my usual desk and my usual routine , and charged with scrupulous self-examination , that I look forward to being interrupted , and that I also get a certain satisfaction from these sighs and clickings of the tongue . |
| 27 | And the handsomest Celt on earth kneels before me while I sit snugly in the big armchair , the best armchair . |
| 28 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 29 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 30 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |