Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small . |
| 2 | I mean looking at a book and see the distance between , in there they give you the distance between Leeds , Ipswich , Leicester and Scotland and then you come to kilometres and |
| 3 | It has n't all been smooth running of course , I mean working in a parliament with eighty separate national political delegations , working in t nine languages , I have to admit we 've made the odd slip . |
| 4 | I mean to start as a group home , well I mean it , of all the places , A it 's not like an ordinary home |
| 5 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 6 | I think he must be gay , I mean going into a monastery and not having anything to do with women and wearing a cravat |
| 7 | When , in his thirties , he took driving lessons and passed his test Dorothy refused to go out in the car with him : ‘ I intend to live to a ripe old age , thank you very much . ’ |
| 8 | Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover . |
| 9 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 10 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 11 | ‘ I may be old-fashioned , ’ Alec sighed , ‘ but I hate experimenting in a lonely spot like this . ’ |
| 12 | Facing the loathsome rat-men I tend to opt for a defensive strategy and try and inflict as many casualties as possible at long range . |
| 13 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 14 | No , I tend to break into a crate of Nettles Old Fester . |
| 15 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 16 | For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community . |
| 17 | I propose to broadcast on a world-wide scale , a message to the good folk of this fair planet . ’ |
| 18 | In Chapter 5 I propose to look at a different aspect of metalinguistic politics : the way in which grammarians and linguists have projected a male/ female dichotomy on to the languages of the world , and their attempts to use grammar as a tactical weapon in the battle of the sexes . |
| 19 | Having said that , the question of to whom the resource should be provided must be addressed , and here I propose to generalise to a large extent , though initially to make reference to the local situation . |
| 20 | I suggest starting with a cheaper jacket until you get hooked — and you can always wear it at weekends afterwards . |
| 21 | Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man . |
| 22 | The central question I want to use as a peg on which to hang various theories is , ‘ Why are so few Christians aware of the direct threat of modernity to the Christian church ? ’ |
| 23 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 24 | I want to lie in a sunny green field . |
| 25 | I wan , I want to la , I want to live for a bit longer . |
| 26 | ‘ I want to live in a small village. , |
| 27 | ‘ I want to live in a big house , with lots of rooms . ’ |
| 28 | In this context I want to refer to a brief but highly significant passage in Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 29 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 30 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |