Example sentences of "i [vb base] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 2 | erm I mean a few of things that I would say , first of all we operate on a freephone system , also we turn claims cheques round the same day , and the name of the game as far as we 're concerned is service . |
| 3 | Well I mean the most of them will obviously go to the cash and er to the er supermarkets and pick it up . |
| 4 | Yeah but how stupid can they be because I mean the less of you are you , I mean you ca n't serve as many as it 's , it 's stupid in n it ? |
| 5 | I mean the eighty of you who said no , do does St. Andrews day mean anything to you at a a at all ? |
| 6 | ‘ I fear the two of you will leave me far behind . ’ |
| 7 | Besides , with this creed I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime , I can so sincerely forgive the first , while I abhor the last with this creed revenge never worries my heart , degradation never too deeply disgusts me , injustice never crushes me too low , I live in calm looking to the end . |
| 8 | I make the best of it , but er I |
| 9 | I get a good view and I make the most of it . |
| 10 | No , Alice , I 'll leave as soon as I can , so let's you and I make the most of today . |
| 11 | Yeah , I only go out drinking now once a week so I think I make the most of it , ca n't remember anything I did Friday night again . |
| 12 | There are fairy rings of eight-inch-diameter horse-mushrooms and of shaggy parasols ( no good for eating raw , but I pick a bagful for later . ) |
| 13 | Counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants today does not accept the reason for those delays , but , as that is not central to the issue before this court , I say no more about it . |
| 14 | Which would be the and I forget the three of them , maybe we would list them as well as Riley House . |
| 15 | I 've been at a desk for years ; I want no more of it and I told them . |
| 16 | I want no more of it . |
| 17 | ‘ I want a patch-through on a secure line to Vice-President Odell , ’ he said , ‘ and I want it now . ’ |
| 18 | So I want a third of their their costs . |
| 19 | Yeah , I want a whole with that whole |
| 20 | In that ninety seconds I want every one of the 13 million viewers to concentrate on the speaker — not on someone else scratching their nose in the background . |
| 21 | That 's a couple of well actually what it is the there was a hundred ninety and er then we had er she says but I want the hundred off you in February which was This was at the just bef just after Christmas . |
| 22 | ‘ I am being realistic , I want the best for all of us . ’ |
| 23 | Now , I want the best for you , the best that I can give you , because in a way you belong to me now , and Ben there . ’ |
| 24 | There from England , I want the best for them . |
| 25 | I myself had a wonderful childhood playing with friends at home and I want the same for him . ’ |
| 26 | To the trumpeter , he said , ‘ I want the dead on both sides counted quickly . |
| 27 | I hold no brief for Britain in this war , but now I 'm convinced Germany 's no better . |
| 28 | I can assure you , I hold no brief for these wretched people , but as I said , I have had some experience — ’ |
| 29 | The rain eases as I head west ; I catch the last of a wide , bloody-looking sunset over Skye and the Kyles and the floodlights turning Eilean Donan 's grey stones green ; I make it to Strome in four hours twenty minutes from home , arriving just as the stars are coming out above in the purple spaces between the dark , heavy clouds . |
| 30 | I picture the two of them ( and I must suppose Summerchild pictures it himself ) walking across Whitehall together , and up Great Scotland Yard , through the thin March sunlight , warmed by the faint hope of summer ; then plunging into the frowsty Edwardian gloom , where neither sunlight nor hope of summer ever penetrate . |