Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the present let me put it on record that the main hold-up has been with me , in setting up the Journal for printing . |
| 2 | As we waited for the lights to change I noticed a sleek white sports car which had stopped at the foot of the church steps to take in a passenger . |
| 3 | If one is then to try and specify the grounds upon which it would be right for the court to intervene I do not for my part find it particularly helpful to speak in terms of special or extraordinary cases as distinct from normal cases . |
| 4 | If it had n't been for the colonel letting me have this cottage for a peppercorn rent , God knows where I 'd be . ’ |
| 5 | For the moment let me repeat that what all this seems to point to as natural is the self-imposed exile which will allow the artist figure , whether Stephen or Joyce himself , to create a new world , with the language of the writer as his ticket , his lifeline , his rescue . |
| 6 | I told myself I was waiting out there for the signals to let me know David and Leon had gone to bed , lights switched off at their bedroom windows , at least some movement of the curtains . |
| 7 | For the community work I went to help with the Mothers and Toddlers group that was held next door to the school . |
| 8 | They ca n't but they , it should , it should have been possible for the councils to have I do n't know it , it it seems I , I put it down , I remember walking up and down on the beach with John about eight weeks ago was it ? |
| 9 | Will the bicycles be kept under lock and key during the night stops I wanted to know , mindful of the problem of bike thieves . |
| 10 | Only once during the dispute did I hear the woman worker 's point of view publicly debated . |
| 11 | His cruel and callous comments about the murder made me shiver . |
| 12 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 13 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it then I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . |
| 15 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 16 | The baggy cut of the jacket made me look as it I 'd eaten one roast dinner too many , however the loose fit gave complete freedom of movement — particularly useful for stretching when scrambling or skiing . |
| 17 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 18 | To this the Queen returned a gracious reply which while maintaining the full impartiality of the Crown encouraged me to continue to do my best to serve her as her First Minister . |
| 19 | And at the end of the Easter break I brought the family back from holiday , rescued the uniforms from the dry cleaners and rang the friend who shares the school pick up just to say : ‘ All set for tomorrow ? ’ |
| 20 | At the left of the autoradiogram DNase I footprinting reactions ( 9 ) of the same fragment ( employing the same c-Jun preparation ) and the corresponding Maxam and Gilbert G + A ladder are depicted , with the arrowhead pointing to the cutting position discussed in the text . |
| 21 | Ever constructive and logical , Wynne-Jones influenced events , and was a credit to the concept of the Life Peer I miss them all . |
| 22 | In a research project I carried out into academic publishing a great deal of the work required me to interview very experienced and knowledgeable publishers and to ask questions which , inevitably , touched on financial matters . |
| 23 | A face comes through the glass door , and all of the reflections make me see Evan . |
| 24 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 25 | Can I buy an off the shelf loom ; which side of the engine do I mount an alternator as I would like to raise it above the dynamo position which is too near any deep water ; is it possible to fit halogen headlamps . |
| 26 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 27 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 28 | With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up . |
| 29 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 30 | Thus in this particular book , while trying to present as fully and clearly as space allowed the teaching of the Scriptures about the Holy Spirit , I would have been failing to meet the aim of the series had I neglected the controversial issues of the baptism , the gifts and the fullness of the Holy Spirit . |