Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] i [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I would tell myself such ideas were unreasonable : why would an American half-poet want to betray me to any government agency ? |
| 2 | I had an apartment on the third floor , overlooking the square and the end of the Avenida Jose Antonio de Rivera round which I would watch Dana coming to join me for another afternoon of poetry . |
| 3 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 4 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 5 | I see alright well or I I invite members of the jury , the council wants to address me on some point of law which need n't concern you , so if you take a short break please . |
| 6 | But the stark reality of the Highland scene described reminds me of another idyllic circumstance that went the rounds about this time . |
| 7 | Several years of research into our love of meat has left me in little doubt that most of us nowadays would prefer not to face up to the carnal origins of our flesh foods . |
| 8 | ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman who Eddie had begun seeing and she said that the marriage had gone through a bad patch and divorce proceedings had been started , ’ Miss Coltman said . |
| 9 | Miss Coltman said : ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman that Eddie was seeing and at one point divorce proceedings had been started . |
| 10 | Miss Coltman said : ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman that Eddie was seeing and at one point divorce proceedings had been started . ’ |
| 11 | Immediately my father started matching me with all kinds of licensed murderous thugs , and one in particular who had become the amateur flyweight champion of Scotland . |
| 12 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 13 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 14 | ‘ My whole life has led me to this point . |
| 15 | I have money but I ca n't control it : Fielding keeps supplying me with more . |
| 16 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 17 | I want to be taken seriously , which makes it galling that when I 've got a brain , certain types of men try to treat me like some empty-headed bimbo who … ’ |
| 18 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 19 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
| 20 | One of the Kirkwoods from Woodbrook had told me about these wondrous isles , where fiddlers played Gaelic melodies to fisherfolk who danced on the quayside . |
| 21 | One bird had frustrated me for most of the trip . |
| 22 | Thus my trial by Fire had shriven me of all but the Dyak tattoo I stood up in , and enough imagery to illustrate something of both the linear and the dream dimensions of an odyssey into the oceanic hemisphere of our beginnings . |