Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I went down to the kitchen and made a cheese sandwich for lunch and wished I 'd gone with Tremayne if only for the ride . |
| 2 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 3 | First the marshals would n't even let Hunt get back into the car to try to get himself going again ; then , on the long walk back to the pits , Hunt , head hung , had to face the most vituperative barrage of noise and insult I have ever heard . |
| 4 | Nicky said : ‘ I suppose I 'll get a lot of enjoyment out of teaching and hope I hope I can pass on some useful advice . ’ |
| 5 | For [ fa ] some of them felt a strong shock just at my thinking of tackling the subject of the sense of humour of the Prophet Muhammad and the holy imams of Islam and advised me to confine my research to modern times . |
| 6 | She said anyway she was away to make a wee cup of tea and did I take sugar ? |
| 7 | I said to Angela , eh , I said , if you go for that job you ca n't stop in middle of ceremony and say I have to go out granddad . |
| 8 | No , it 's got to be right , right , er big and I 'm going to stuff it with a plank of wood and put I 've got about two bushes and what the problem is , is you 've got get |
| 9 | The sooner you start , the sooner you 'll have all the wonderful feelings , the sense of achievement and pride I have now . |
| 10 | He was always a lot of fun and made me laugh . ’ |
| 11 | And on this morning , of all mornings , James phoned at the crack of dawn and asked me to preside over a ridiculous Press party . |
| 12 | After about half an hour 's unsteady plodding along the sand , leaving dinosaur hoofprints and a small steaming roundabout in the middle of the beach , my buffalo turned back for home , slotted a few heads of corn into his cheeks by the way of reward and let me dismount . |
| 13 | The clean channel springs into life first , and with the absolute minimum of fuss and fiddling I had some sparkly clean sounds to play with . |
| 14 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 15 | In visor and sunshades I swatted antipodean flies , my cheeks padded with sponges and my eyes squinting through blue contact lenses , and the whole world thought it was a backdrop . |
| 16 | The tree was 360mm in diameter and to enable me to get the correct clearance around the tree and the seat width I drew a rough development on the patio with chalk . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll doubtless go to ground and leave me to cope with everything . ’ |
| 18 | She says : ‘ When I was 29 I remember going to bed and thinking I hope I do n't wake up 30 , which is dreadful . |
| 19 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 20 | With that , they walked off together to class and left me standing alone by the gates . |
| 21 | They are like nowhere else on earth and inspire me to try new things . |
| 22 | All eight doctors signed a letter on 13 December to the Secretary of State for Health and asked me to pass it on . |
| 23 | Even for two days I would n't be able to bear the sight of Auntie Jean first thing in the morning , without her make-up on , her face blank as an egg , as she had prunes , kippers and cigarettes for breakfast and made me drink Typhoo tea . |
| 24 | Cos Rachel rang me at work and said I need your phone number . |
| 25 | But sometimes the Earl would ring me at home at night and ask me to drive back to Althorp because the Countess was in floods of tears . |
| 26 | So I was a bit nicer at supper-time and said I needed a bath ( which I did ) . |