Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman , this is not what we , er , agreed before , and it seems to me that there 's been some re-thinking on this , and I hesitate to say that once again , er , members are trying to face all ways because they do n't want to upset somebody , but the policy that we 've had in the past , had total support at property , and it is , it is a policy that has worked . |
| 2 | But the money is in the budget Chairman , I want to make that quite clear , the money is here in , in the West Mercia Police budget to be able to provide sixteen extra policemen immediately . |
| 3 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 4 | I begin to suggest that sometimes it is n't useful for such ideas to come through pop stars : it makes them trendy and … |
| 5 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 6 | I find found that absolutely incredible and I thought it was bizarre to say the least , the procedure we had to go through the other er evening erm with two hours of acrimonious debate er a break while you consulted er the officers before we got to some er sensible way forward which is now incorporated in this amendment er to spend a hundred thousand pounds on actually trying to trace . |
| 7 | After tiny U-turns Chairman two by the Tories and one by the Labour group , I do hope that finally we 're going to make progress tonight . |
| 8 | I do hope that very shortly er the governments can get round the table and sort out this crisis er in a diplomatic way . |
| 9 | Finally , I do hope that as many of you as possible will enter our Gardener of the Year competition . |
| 10 | Although , I do think that probably erm , religion at that time er , could have been this very narrow , rigid |
| 11 | I know that a lot of youngsters gain their first experience of shooting with bolting rabbits but I do think that so much preparatory work is necessary to create the opportunity for the rabbits to be killed that the chance must not be missed . |
| 12 | However , I do believe that intensely private moments should not be captured on film , but this is left very much up to the integrity of the individual photographer . ’ |
| 13 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 14 | However , I do accept that once an order for possession is made , the extent of his right as a statutory tenant can and will be curtailed . |
| 15 | However , I do accept that occasionally it 's necessary to promote a volunteer in order to keep up morale in the ranks . |
| 16 | Er and thirdly I think I 've covered that already , it 's it perhaps fails to provide the certainty which we the development plan system is supposed now to . |
| 17 | I 've said that before to men : ‘ Have you had a long enough look ? ’ |
| 18 | Then he said : ‘ If it sounds as though I 've said that before , you 're right . |
| 19 | Erm and er oh yes , er no wait a minute I had and take two and started work as a booking clerk , I 've said that before at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 20 | What where are you I 've missed that actually the the quite interesting just to briefly ask you about th erm When we s when I saw you last time , you were telling me something about actually erm a bit about yourself how what kind of person actually saying , you know , personality , what kind of things Wh how would you actually describe yourself ? say if I said to you , Erm what kind of person are you ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 've met that before with hippos , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I mean , I 've noticed that just |
| 23 | Agent Vincent Shaw , who represents Miss Lindop 's book , tells me : ‘ I 've heard that both Mr and Mrs Major love the book and apparently they read it on their honeymoon . |
| 24 | Yeah I 've heard that as |
| 25 | Erm I think just I 've answered that just probably the way you put it . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , I 've thought that ever since he arrived . |
| 27 | Now we 've got ordinary tea , we 've got herbal tea , we 've got coffee out of a coffee machine , we 've got Lapsang Souchong , we 've got ordinary tea I 've mentioned that already have n't I ? |
| 28 | I 've tried that quite a few times , so |
| 29 | I venture to think that both the dictum and the decision are wrong , and that , as soon as they come under review by the Court of Appeal , will be declared to be so . |
| 30 | So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry . |