Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These kinds of variations can seem very confusing , which is why I advocate taking the job slowly , one section at a time . |
| 2 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 3 | Na , I mean answered a yes to that question , but I do n't think it 's a matter of do you want or do you no , cos I do n't think the choice is there . |
| 4 | I mean got no mortgage to pay out you can you can bank eight hundred pound of that every month . |
| 5 | I mean take the example that Hugh is always using , is that if I wanted to knock a wall through , a hole through that wall and put a door in there with a link in it surely to goodness we |
| 6 | I mean take the take the skin off it . |
| 7 | I mean getting a job on the land ? ’ |
| 8 | I 've got the spare tablets but I mean getting the prescription . |
| 9 | Yeah cos I mean come the winter we 'll we wo n't know ourselves . |
| 10 | no I mean change the data |
| 11 | No she , she does n't do a thing I mean to cook a Sunday dinner she does n't know what it is . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean removing the obvious , stupid ways of doing things which grow up within a business . |
| 13 | And it 's self employment so the couriers that we er supplied with the parcels with are the p- umm er , they 're liable for tax and insurance if any is due , I mean earn a certain amount of money before you start |
| 14 | I mean said the other day , Why do n't you pack up this stupid idea of picketing . |
| 15 | No I mean stop the printout and recall , reprint out and set it up |
| 16 | For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead . |
| 17 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 18 | I mean given the size of China I mean th there 'd be |
| 19 | Would you watch fo women fo , I mean given the |
| 20 | Like , you got , I mean put the other side of the . |
| 21 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 22 | Cos I mean get a good deal |
| 23 | Yeah I mean get the hall but he ca n't get the er you know |
| 24 | I mean to get the tissue paper |
| 25 | " I mean to buy a caravan — do they call them " Mobile Homes ' , what an awful name ! — Gigi will love it . " |
| 26 | By sacrifice and submission and by the Grace of God I mean to become a truly serious person , fit to make a new beginning and become a Catholic and a proper wife to you . |
| 27 | If I mean to mind a thing I never mind it |
| 28 | I mean move the |
| 29 | You 'll have to , I mean have a . |
| 30 | well there you are then , yeah she goes to school does n't she , well I think it 's sad I mean giving a child a name like that |