Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 2 | This is the experiment and experience I commend to any business man or industrialist who wants to meet the challenge of the ideological crisis of our times . |
| 3 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 4 | My dearest love , I chatter about all sorts of odd news , when I really only want to tell you that my real self is in your keeping . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know anything , ’ I repeat with exaggerated lethargy . |
| 6 | Again , I repeat with this problem of unemployment and so on , and the really obscene level of unemployment in this country at the moment — absolutely shocking I think — and I think the universities have to address themselves to that problem . |
| 7 | Well it 's a bit i well I , well I could do but it 's a bit tricky I mean to some |
| 8 | I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't . |
| 9 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 10 | I mean for that er |
| 11 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 12 | Well I was gon na ask you if you knew any girls , I mean for seven pound fifty you ca n't go wrong , you ca n't even get that in town with a hat |
| 13 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 14 | yeah , I mean for twenty thousand what could you have ? , you could have a Calibre could n't ya for twenty thousand |
| 15 | It wor i I mean for those it did work |
| 16 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 17 | I mean with ordinary ones |
| 18 | I mean with all that stuff about little coteries , and cosy dinner-parties , and so on … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ This is the time , and I am saying what I mean with all my heart . |
| 20 | Cos he 's bound , I mean with all that mud and everything , I mean there 's lots of sheep droppings and god knows what up there is n't there ? |
| 21 | Yeah well I mean with all this noise and that you do n't feel like doing much do you ? |
| 22 | That 's what I mean with that Jean you probably wo n't need vitamins . |
| 23 | Well I do n't know about that , I mean with some schools it 'd be a good idea to get them away from it . |
| 24 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |
| 25 | so he j , now he does make an effort in some of his books and , I mean they say write small , I mean on one page if he wrote any smaller I need a ma |
| 26 | Well they were , they were really dependent on , I mean on each other , they were a unit even though they were two families in a way |
| 27 | Well an an an and I , it seems to me that the , the er I mean you go , you go to the er to the M S Society and you find just about everybody there , you know , you find people who , who are in wheelchairs , you find people who are walking around , you find people who are er controlling their diet you find people who are obs s taking extreme dietary precautions , no , not precautions , no they are taking extreme care of their diet , er er I mean on gluten-free diets and you know what that means |
| 28 | I mean at six thirty . |
| 29 | I mean at first I did n't know what you mean , but I do now . |
| 30 | So when someone walks up with the intention of breaking in a light comes on , I mean at one time , it 's not the same now , but at one time when these lights with the detectors first came out , nobody actually knew whether they were switched on or not . |