Example sentences of "i [vb base] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This combination of specimens could be recognized either by grouping them into a single genus or into a tribe , and on present evidence I favour the latter alternative and suggest the Afropithecini as a suitable name . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Peering into the tank using a strong eye-glass I could only see a few fry and I mean a few . |
| 4 | Yeah I mean a few months ago I had absolutely no idea at all what |
| 5 | I mean a few people are talking , how many of you agree with that ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I mean the most of them will obviously go to the cash and er to the er supermarkets and pick it up . |
| 8 | well it could be as many as that I mean sit and count it , but there 's a lot of variation , there 's a lot to catch your eye , I mean the more things contrast with each other , the more you notice them , is n't that true . |
| 9 | You see , now the more you think about it , I mean the more you you do n't actually use this |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 12 | I develop a few prospects , and a severe case of dysentery . |
| 13 | I fear the latter , but first a little more on the term itself . |
| 14 | And because I fear that that is the position , I can not help but feel that before long we will have yet another attempt to amend Act seventeen , nineteen sixty three and that we will go round the circuit , the same circuit once again with I fear the same result . |
| 15 | However , I fear the same can not be said for Captain Guy Trentham . ’ |
| 16 | If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in . |
| 17 | As I write , I make the same demands upon my own text as I do , in my critical capacity , on the texts of other writers . |
| 18 | But you must give me leave to confide in the prince , and I make the same promise for him . |
| 19 | I get a good view and I make the most of it . |
| 20 | No , Alice , I 'll leave as soon as I can , so let's you and I make the most of today . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Without being asked , I pick a few motes of white lint from the jacket 's dark surface and help him straighten his tie . |
| 23 | I 've refused work , and I expect the same loyalty from Enya , even if she married Phil Spector tomorrow ! |
| 24 | The Prime Minister was heard in silence , and I expect the same courtesy to be extended to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I say no more than that . |
| 27 | Er when I say a few , about twenty perhaps , thirty , and er , of course , it was then me brother got the order for the canteen as well see . |
| 28 | And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes . |
| 29 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 30 | I say the same thing |