Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I see the Giotto frescoes at Padua I do not trouble to recognise which scene in the life of Christ I have before me , but I perceive instantly the sentiment which radiates from it and which is instinct in the composition in every line and color . |
| 2 | I mean alright the pub garden 's next to it . |
| 3 | because this is , I mean I did n't hear the dogs last night , only the kid , but I mean nevertheless the day before if you 'd of been in there , so but , but the kitchen can be done , toilet can be done |
| 4 | You know we were asked , Do you want your own bank account really and we decided er democratically that we 'd have the one bank account really for make sure the D H S S did n't start snooping really and you know er that 's worked very well I mean certainly the men very much tell us everything that 's going on and erm well you know I do n't think there 's any conflict of erm I do n't know you know it 's it 's difficult I suppose it 's amazing really the way it does work you know and that er you know but it 's quite loose really because it 's er that 's in a way the way one of it 's successes probably you know that 's it 's not a very structured I mean probably the lodge is more structured I mean men are used to their lodge meetings are n't they you know ? |
| 5 | that 's what I mean just the blood tests ? |
| 6 | Oh no never in marketing as er I mean even the Institute of Directors and the Institute of er the C B I recognize now , in fact they put out papers on it , to say that network marketing is the way of the future . |
| 7 | Yes I mean issue with illegitimate children or his affair means that I mean even the line he was running is okay because I 'm rich so it 's not gon na and it 's not gon na and so he 's got these two sort of values , that if you are a single parent and you 're poor that makes you lesser and more immoral than if you were a single parent and you 're rich . |
| 8 | I mean here the notion of differentiation as a crucial component of the restructuring of the working class as part of the restructuring of the capitalist system of production in these last decades of the twentieth century ( see Byrne and Parson , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | I mean perhaps the point I have n't brought out , which was another enormous effect from the mixed ability teaching , or the mixed ability grouping , was the improvement in the pupils erm behaviour . |
| 10 | I mean maybe the money , a lot of , is it , is anything to do with the , not the staff costs , but in actual fact the C A D equipment we 've bought ? |
| 11 | So that 's worth bearing in mind , and how you handle it , I mean maybe the press officer makes an arrangement to facilitate the the actual contact , but the press officer , a good press officer is not a person who stops the press getting into an organization , a good press officer is somebody who facilitates the press getting into the organization in the right way and talking to the right people preferably about the right things , but if not the right things the wrong things to the right with the right people , if you understand what I 'm saying . |
| 12 | I mean okay the brick might move a tiny bit . |
| 13 | I mean obviously the reality is that obviously if you buy a mechanical breakdown insurance from a dealer and the dealer goes into liquidation then obviously that does n't affect the policy because the policy will still be handled by a company such as ours , and there are a number of companies obviously . |
| 14 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 15 | I mean then the rate was four pound an hour . |
| 16 | But absolutely right , I mean there the guy should be able to see that this person is closing up on there . |
| 17 | And , and also that , he then goes on to say that the revolution , it is n't , it 's not a re re final thing , it 's not an insurrection , er he says it 's not like writing an essay , you know all these er analogies , that I mean basically the revolution is an over , it needs force er and i it 's , it is a violent , y y you do n't , in order for the revolution to have been a success it , it needs to be |
| 18 | Well I mean really the healing was their faith was n't it ? |
| 19 | I mean unfortunately the authority in days gone by has benefited from the scheme in the sense that the extra , extra money in service in truth , the revenue was there , erm , the chickens have come home to roost in the sense that it 's , the tables have turned the other way , and I mean , gone are the days where , when we 're least worried out that impact that , that , that much more of our er , of our budget . |
| 20 | So I have to I I sit there the week before I get the you know before I get the money , I sit there and work it all out . |
| 21 | Transmuted into the reality of flesh and blood the seniority factor and the locality factor not infrequently give rise — and I borrow here the language of on-the-spot Irish witnesses — to factionalism , bargaining , lobbying and infighting , degenerating on occasion into bitter wrangles , internecine feuds and even physical violence . |
| 22 | I swear by all I hold dear the Koran , my wife , child and mother I had nothing to do with this . ’ |
| 23 | I welcome also the introduction of annual written reports , which I hope will contain grading for each child . |
| 24 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 25 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
| 26 | In 1970 , I put forward the concept of ‘ primary leys ’ : a structure into which all other leys were supposed to fit . |
| 27 | You questioned Mr Mayor at the city board when I put forward the proposal to increase the er turnover figure from three percent to four percent . |
| 28 | I put away the money to pay that bill and if I have n't got anything left over to buy food with , then we have to manage . |
| 29 | And when Gittel cut my pride and my heart into pieces with her little sharp fingernails , and I let loose the dybbuk on her and got punished for it , I was neither one thing nor the other , once again . ’ |
| 30 | I support strongly the development of housing associations in view of my experience with my local authority in Sevenoaks , which successfully sold the whole of its housing stock to West Kent housing association . |