Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because , I mean , there you are , look , I mean for argument 's sake , now , well they have e e every Tuesday off or some Monday or Tuesday off do n't he ? |
| 2 | I mean for heaven 's sake , it is only a game . |
| 3 | Mm , yeah , but the thing is I mean with Dave 's mum and dad , I mean it 's like , think , they have the odd weekend away do n't they ? |
| 4 | ‘ I was brought up as one , ’ Frau Nordern said , ‘ but after 1945 … a God who would allow that to happen … that 's what I mean about Omi 's honour . |
| 5 | Erm now I know that most of you have memorized the constitution but because I suffer from Alzheimer 's I had to bring mine with me to remind myself erm what the constitution says about the , the powers of the presidency . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , but I insist for Hercule 's sake . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Because although she is relieved to think you and Harry are being so well taken care of by Edna and her daughter , she also becomes agitated whenever I touch on Edna 's role in her life when she was very small . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah well what I want for Jonathan 's bedroom , you can buy them . |
| 9 | I put on Hyde 's clothes and marched confidently through the house . |
| 10 | After washing , I put on Boot 's non-sting anti-perspirant . |
| 11 | They got as far as ‘ I 'm a Forrester , I score for Leeds , I hate Man U and I hate Chel-sea ’ , plus the line ‘ I put on women 's clothing , like Eric Cantona ’ . |
| 12 | I do go out , I swear to God I put on Zoey 's tight skirt , you know the straight tight ones , they really do n't suit me at all I really do look awful . |
| 13 | ‘ Before I start a book , I always draw a map of the setting , and I put in people 's houses . |
| 14 | ‘ I imagine from Cadogan 's attitude that that 's the problem . |
| 15 | But if I 'm if I act as devil 's advocate , the fact that that inner route would pass through the greenbelt does not necessarily diminish the purpose of the greenbelt . |
| 16 | Some odd irresponsibility is stirring in me as I listen to Serafin 's preposterous diatribe . |
| 17 | Indeed I own myself unworthy and I long to be the servant of even the least religious in the Church of God and I hope by God 's grace to be made a sharer with them … |
| 18 | Copyright : ADAGP , Paris/DACS , London , 1989 The first thing that I feel when I look at Miro 's Painting is a sense of sublime calm . |
| 19 | A top copy writer says : " When I look at people 's work now I 'm searching for signs of an original mind … of imagination . " |
| 20 | I look in peoples ' erm shopping trolleys at Tesco and they er do n't seem to er |
| 21 | I weep for Barrow 's prospects were there conceivably any change in Government , because the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) has said that the Opposition would replace a cancelled fourth boat with equivalent work only to be denounced by his own candidate in Barrow who used the words ’ ignorant and ill-informed ’ . |
| 22 | YET everything I read on Labour 's slate seems calculated to cast this precious opportunity away . |
| 23 | You can say that again , was what I read on Quiggers ' face . |
| 24 | In 1965 I read about Penrose 's theorem that any body undergoing gravitational collapse must eventually form a singularity . |
| 25 | " I read in Goldsmith 's History of Greece , which is a very interesting book , then my attention is directed to Arithmetic which generally finishes the day 's employment . |
| 26 | I travel for travel 's sake . |
| 27 | I recall with pleasure 's The World of Science ( 1958 ) , along with the delightful books of . |
| 28 | I know for God 's sake ! |
| 29 | yes , and I sometimes think that way I know with Ken 's two brothers the way they behaved with wife number one and the way they are with wife number two is a different world . |
| 30 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |