Example sentences of "what i [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what I mean by controlled access is nobody comes on i within to this flat complex , without er the se the security team knowing . |
| 2 | And now perhaps you understand what I mean by Personal Management . ’ |
| 3 | That 's what I mean by artificial jobs . |
| 4 | What I mean by prescient is this . |
| 5 | but I ought to explain what I mean by budgeted fi figure . |
| 6 | What I deconstructed as distant birds dotted into a sullen sky by a brief wrist declining detail turned out to be — fly-shit . |
| 7 | In addition to discussing some delightfully way-out biological examples of iterated prisoner 's dilemmas , Axelrod and Hamilton gave what I regard as due recognition to the ESS approach . |
| 8 | ‘ Then he wanted to know what I thought of young Hilary , ’ said Tom . |
| 9 | In choosing between the goals towards which I spontaneously tend , I may find myself being excited more strongly by what I perceive here and now than by what I imagine from other viewpoints , so that for example a present amusement obliterates consciousness of a future danger . |
| 10 | Its television advertisements still portray a genuine Eskimo fisherman , who proudly declares : ‘ You know what I like about Eskimo Pie ? |
| 11 | ‘ What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites , ’ she says . |
| 12 | What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites |
| 13 | and I told you that from the minute he sat down and he started playing , I 'm a card shark , nobody tells me what I know about bloody cards |
| 14 | What I know from long and painful experience is this : we kick them , they go mightily obstinate . |
| 15 | Well that 's what I said about bloody V A T for ! |
| 16 | Those eighty six , why did you say yes when yo when I er ho how did you interpret what I said about worrying ? |
| 17 | The hon. Lady may not have heard what I said about Scottish Homes . |
| 18 | As for what I meant by progressive methods , he did not believe in just filling children with data , if that 's what I meant . |
| 19 | Almost too wonderful — too unselfish — as if you were — what I meant by remote — sort of sleepy , untouched , abstracted , not really present . ’ |
| 20 | If the right hon. Gentleman does not accept what I say about industrial matters , he will perhaps listen to the head of the Swedish employers federation , who said that the Community should learn from Sweden : ’ It could above all avoid mistakes when it comes to regulations based on the social charter . |
| 21 | That 's erm moving along a little bit erm there 's also this business of of what I suppose in other contexts has been called blaming the victim , this business of children somehow inviting the the , if they have actually been abused , it must be because they 've invited it so erm that 's erm . |
| 22 | Dr Runcie said the new rules ‘ tried to steer a course between what I described as legislative schism and a measure which would reduce to second class membership those who find themselves unable to recognise women priests ’ . |
| 23 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
| 24 | I am going to take a risk and say what I think about local radio on the basis of my knowledge , personal knowledge , and these gentlemen can as it , as it were sort of say it 's , it 's not like that for them or whatever . |
| 25 | ‘ And we all know what I think of big Paul . ’ |
| 26 | Well I would 've called what I did in bloody Austria eighteen months ago physical it knackered me more than many other bloody things I did , like crawling up bloody hills and Mind you it 's just as enjoyable . |
| 27 | ‘ You know what I do to little boys who whistle ? ’ |
| 28 | on social , as what I do on blinking pension |
| 29 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 30 | When I asked how the Public Accounts Committee could examine what I regarded as gross excesses and a gross dereliction of duty by the Secretary of State for Transport , I was told — quite properly that the PAC could investigate only specific charges . |