Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I plead guilty , partly , but in my defence I want to return to the point I signalled earlier , that a biographical approach has more political justification if the project being undertaken is one concerned with the cultural history of a marginalized group . |
| 2 | After a fruitless hour I decided to go on the stick . |
| 3 | And of course I had to go on the carpet about that , for laughing . |
| 4 | So the two of us went off to Peel and er anyway they paid us , they paid for our lunch and er and so that was alright and of course I had to go in the witness box , you see and swear on the bible , you know , the whole truth , nothing but the truth , you see . |
| 5 | I was paid by the dry weight and you can imagine how many bucketfuls I needed to scrape off the rocks to earn myself any return at all . |
| 6 | ‘ But it was just a decision I had to make under the circumstances I was given . |
| 7 | We 've still got er er a couple of calls I think to come before the end of er this morning 's programme on the subject of erm , I do n't know whether it 's life imprisonment or er on er on divorce . |
| 8 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 9 | In this chapter I want to concentrate on the response of community educators , particularly their reaction to the problems and issues facing the working class . |
| 10 | oh tell mummy I want to play on the bikes |
| 11 | For lunch I intend to go to the Strawberry Duck pub , Entwhistle , Saturday afternoon is free for shopping in Manchester 's Arndale Centre or whatever and for the evening meal the plan is to go to the new Indian take-away which has opened near Castle Irwell — the ‘ Tandoori Cottage ’ . |
| 12 | This is as far as I can get with my researches for now , because after lunch I have to go to the Treasury , with my colleague Jane Showell , for a meeting of the joint working party on Sunningdale ; not even death takes precedence over the Treasury . |
| 13 | I had the Count send him my plans for the work I wanted to do on the buildings . |
| 14 | This was the question I tried to answer as the decade of the 1980s began . |
| 15 | If the filly did go off her legs I should have to start cutting into her windpipe , but I put the thought away from me , For the moment I had to depend on the adrenalin . |
| 16 | At this point I have to appeal to the trust of the reader . |
| 17 | The kind of films I want to make in the future would be totally gay in sensibility , whatever that might mean , but totally about heterosexuals and aiming to seduce the general population . ’ |
| 18 | In the next Journal I hope to deal with the correspondence relating to the great flood , which closed the Railway on the 13th & 14th May 1886 . |
| 19 | Continuing with the photo-copies that our Chairman , Richard Newcombe and I secured on our visit to the National Railway Museum at York , in this issue of the Journal I wish to concentrate on the correspondence between S. H. Pearce-Higgins and W. Roberts , who was the Receiver/Manager of the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 20 | ‘ We did n't , but when I heard the whisper about the picture I decided to beef up the budget , ’ her father explained . |
| 21 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 22 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 23 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 24 | One day I happened to come across the work of the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi . |
| 25 | The next day I decided to walk through the forest for a few miles and take the train to Strelsau from a little station along the road . |
| 26 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 27 | The bank I pay cos there 's two or three different things I have to pay to the bank which they insist if you have a development loan you have to have this and you have to have that and that comes |
| 28 | Thanks to Geoff 's example , as a social worker specialising in alcohol problems I started to learn about the interaction between alcohol and depression . |
| 29 | On one occasion I stopped to pray before the statue of a saint at a street corner and noticed the lamp burning before it . |
| 30 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |