Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I married Melanie in a rush , for reasons which embarrass me to remember . |
2 | I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride , and once she 'd stopped laughing about Simon she told me to head for the pub where I 'd dropped Clara . |
3 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
4 | The answer is of course What Have I Done to Deserve This ? , made before his international hits Law of Desire and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . |
5 | A workload survey that the are doing , and er they they 're trying to get loads of GPs to do it and of course they want me to do it next week , and I 'm not here next week . |
6 | Of course I said I did . ’ |
7 | Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority |
8 | So people have been forced to look at the way in which they are doing the work in er conjunction with er the manual for whatever other book of rules they have I wished they 'd do they carry out their work . |
9 | Well I 've got quite a lot of experience I mean I 've |
10 | I mean a lot of times you know I think just phone up and say , Is mister so and so there and then guard themselves T N T delivery . |
11 | I wo n't the amount of times I 've I 've been in a car or something , where fucking jump on the brakes ! |
12 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
13 | AS A COPYWRITER AT the agency responsible for advertising the launch of Femidom I felt I had to comment on the remarks made by your testees ( pun intended ) . |
14 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
15 | ‘ If you 're away to glory in some sort of wilderness I suppose I have n't much option — but I must say that this is mighty strange — ’ |
16 | However , talking of fascia you know I mean this is er we could make it er something else then happened which is a lorry went into it . |
17 | I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten |
18 | I mean I can see that a lot of people I mean I think that we should thank our men and women who were in the Gulf , of course we should , erm I 'm questioning only the way that we 've chosen to do it , by a victory parade . |
19 | The recession — it looks as though there is a glimmer of light , but I was on the continent a couple of three weeks ago when the mortar attack took place at Number Ten and the reaction of people I met I mean it was much more marked there than it was here , or seemed to be . |
20 | I stayed well clear of the sort of people who thought I had a dead-end job in the Civil Service , and those who knew what the job was stayed clear of me . |
21 | Eighty-seven per cent of people who read me have read every book I 've written . ’ |
22 | She said sharply , ‘ My romantic novels enabled you girls to have a carefree life , the sort of life I wish I 'd been able to give your father . ’ |
23 | I do n't know , I want to find out if I do really believe what I say I do and if I want the kind of life I say I do , and the only way to do that seems to be to get right away and try a straight career for a bit , just to see how I react . ’ |
24 | The wall charts were the type of project I felt I had trained to tackle , and this was my first major commission involving both botany and zoology . |
25 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
26 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
27 | If you listen sometimes to speeches made by the Royal Family now , they are not necessarily to my mind and er this is this difficulty of the sort of humanity and effemininity of the Duchess of York and the Princess of Wales who tried I think , both of them , to do a phenomenal amount of public work with different levels of success and different levels of coverage . |
28 | Despite an unhappy ending , ‘ The Disappearance ’ contains a lot of energy which made me come away from the book feeling hopeful and while I learnt more about the characters , I also found I learnt more about myself and my feelings towards family life and friends . |
29 | It rec , received a report therefore , from the Central Council of the World Counc , Council of Churches which meets I think , once a year Noel can correct me on this once a year , or a at least once every two years . |
30 | ‘ For years I believed I did n't have even one person I could call family , ’ he said . |