Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I want to cry , I hide in the toilet and feel desperate ’ , was a common reaction if I asked someone where she cried . |
| 2 | I hide in the bedroom , pretending to work on my lines . |
| 3 | I back toward the door trying to shush her , till she stops shouting long enough to ask , ‘ What sort of business are you in that uses kids as errand boys ? ’ |
| 4 | With the borrowed gun I keep him covered while I back to the cabin door and open it . |
| 5 | The sums I award under the heading of accommodation therefore amount in total to fifty two thousand six hundred and fort thirty four pounds twenty eight pence . |
| 6 | I sell to the purchasing committees of the many regions . |
| 7 | I repair to the bank with the intention of changing some more dollars and wave the wad of readies at the teller as well . |
| 8 | When two or three such persons were gathered together at our servants ' hall — I mean of the calibre of , say , Mr Graham , with whom now , sadly , I seem to have lost touch — we would have some of the most stimulating and intelligent debates on every aspect of our vocation . |
| 9 | Well t I mean to the extent that that is happening , that there is a development of trade on the sort of , you know , with the periphery of the empire and with erm areas outside the empire , and that was certainly happening in this period , I do n't see why it should have a significant impact on the peasant population because there is n't really any evidence that it 's , in a sense , trickling down and enriching the peasantry . |
| 10 | Can we talk about job description , because I am not clear about those , I mean to the end of the audit , I , I rang up to day and asked about whether the , who should be signing them . |
| 11 | I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean with the boy ? ’ |
| 13 | Ah but there 's no bins now I mean with the wheelie bins they 're the g best thing ever , stops rats , dog everything . |
| 14 | its my responses to it , that would be a very different approach , because of familiar with a , I mean with the postcard that was past around , familiar with that picture then looked at it one , I feel that about it . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean on the cooking side of the job , ’ he explained patiently . |
| 16 | Black will take it swinging it in flicked on by Rozario and the goalkeeper made up for er what might have been an error a moment or two ago by coming bravely in with Pearce right in front of him and Rozario I mean on the flick . |
| 17 | yeah , I mean on the burglary project we did a super video about victims , they did one for school which Steve was involved in which was excellent and you know so the quality is not in doubt . |
| 18 | I mean on the cottage . |
| 19 | We began filming with Richard Phillips on the sidelines ( by which I mean on the floor , through the windows , in the lounge and peering at the man peering through the lens ) , Nigel ( Grubby ) Foster and Michael Hall representing J Walter Thompson , the Agency . |
| 20 | I mean on the bottom . |
| 21 | you actually exchange , as soon as you 've exchanged contracts we 've got to get insured you see but erm I mean on the letter we got from the solicitor on Saturday it said , it , it looks as though your purchaser 's ready to exchange contracts in the forthcoming week |
| 22 | They 're going to be confused yes , very confused , I mean on the football pitch you usually get the trainer run man and they 're talking to the footballer and it 's looking at them all the time and he will ask questions , erm what 's your name ? |
| 23 | I bought along this brochure , you can have a copy if you like but I mean at the back there are forty five institutions all virtually paddling their own canoe . |
| 24 | I mean at the time |
| 25 | But then they 've always got the threat of er er er I mean at the moment there really is n't that threat is there ? |
| 26 | I mean at the moment we ca n't . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We do n't want pe I mean we do n't want sales reps agreeing to allocations I mean at the moment we have n't got anybody to administer them it 's being done by groups it 's going to be a nightmare in a big way |