Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hide my sticky hand behind me , as if it 's brightly stained . |
| 2 | But when I criticise a tremolo system for being awkward to change strings on , or a truss rod for being inaccessible , it 's because I change my own strings and adjust my own truss rod . |
| 3 | I commend my hon. Friends the Members for Rugby and Kennilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) and for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) for their overall appraisal of our policy . |
| 4 | If I sell my British Telecom shares , will I be taxed on any profits I make ? |
| 5 | My good sense knows you are right in your stark decision , and yet I regret my good friend . |
| 6 | If that 's what the women want , then let them have it , and if anyone accuses me of ulterior motives such as laziness , squeamishness or Freudian anxieties about symbolic castration by infant sons — I deny it all . |
| 7 | If you say something to me I check that I have understood your message by saying it back to you in my own words , for if I repeat your own words exactly you will doubt whether I have really understood you . |
| 8 | , but when they asked us to go , you know , I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert would n't speak and came and said would you two like to go , he 's on the committee , you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I 'll put your name down so |
| 9 | Cos started a union up , but that was after when I was working at Squires but there was n't , there was n't a union , a union at all then , but er there was keen competition between Tonkses and cos they and , I mean they all developed the Yale and er we used to get a lot of visitors around , and er you used to get a lot of American visitors around , but erm it 's a it 's a very very old town is n't it , very old because mother used to do her shopping there and there were n't any buses running , but we used to go by wagonette from er to do the Saturday shopping er Applobish used to run the wagonettes and the daughter used to drive the two horses and |
| 10 | for Christmas , but I mean erm , it 's expected I mean they all come to ours anyway so , but erm |
| 11 | Er erm I think , I mean they all eat most of them eat the ham , there were a few that sent it back I think it was probably a bit much for them . |
| 12 | I mean they all say they understand what it 's like being on the dole and that , but they do n't . |
| 13 | I mean they all joined the club but Sue used |
| 14 | I mean they both bad the Cathedral arms on them . |
| 15 | I mean they open the door and bell can go inside ca n't it ? |
| 16 | And erm they tasted I mean we all used to have a taste of it and it tasted quite nice ! |
| 17 | But I mean we all are . |
| 18 | erm I do n't think it , I mean we all know that , you know , er the unemployed are the , the least collectivized group of people in , as , as a group , that |
| 19 | Erm as I say he was a he was brilliant man er I mean we all we I 'm about one of the last of the ones that were taught under him . |
| 20 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 21 | I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment . |
| 22 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 23 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |
| 24 | So as I say I , I found Friday very useful , I found the er , the renewed routines , although we , I mean we all had lots of problems with the videos , they did n't come out but it did n't really matter because the three of us in our group sat there and very openly , very honestly , and without any personal animosity whatsoever helped each other and that again , as I say very useful and so above all a and I think it 's something that I feel very strongly about because we have n't talked to people we 've , in English , understandable language about what this is all about . |
| 25 | Well like I mean we all know what a bell is , a bell which is set off by by a human body coming in . |
| 26 | Yes , I mean we all pay our electricity bills you know what it costs do n't you ? |
| 27 | Yeah well , I mean we all My father died of a heart attack . |
| 28 | Well , I mean we all erm |
| 29 | but because he knew it was our troop , you know but erm , that 's the thing when you , nine times , about eight times out of ten you did it to another troop , but then again they did it back to you , but this time he was a right cocky son of a bitch , I mean we all liked him , but he was right cocky bastard , so he |
| 30 | I mean we all saved what one fifty each on it ? |