Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 2 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 3 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 4 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 5 | ‘ For a couple of hours I feel like a man again , ’ said one . |
| 6 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 7 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 8 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 11 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’ |
| 13 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 14 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 16 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 17 | He was a employed by Dorrisons I think as a recovery bloke , you know |
| 18 | I used to love driving that around , it was that long , me sat behind the wheel I looked like a dot in that ! |
| 19 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 20 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
| 21 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 22 | For a term I lived in a room which looked out straight across to the tower . |
| 23 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 24 | After two hours with dry feet I stepped into a bog up to my knees — end of test . |
| 25 | After lunch I went for a walk in the little market town , now being hardened to being a subject of great curiosity , with people gaping at the sides of the road , and children following us up and down the street . |
| 26 | In my dream I flew through a twilight until I reached a forest of enormous trees . |
| 27 | LAST FEBRUARY I WENT FOR A WALK in the snow on Wimbledon Common . |
| 28 | But it reminded me , of this bloke I met in a port once . |
| 29 | So in a panic I went into a room , closed the door , and started screaming until I got hoarse . |
| 30 | ‘ They had some panelling I wanted for a boat I did up , and some antique bathroom fittings . |