Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [verb] i [vb infin] " 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 | If it had n't been for the colonel letting me have this cottage for a peppercorn rent , God knows where I 'd be . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Only once during the dispute did I hear the woman worker 's point of view publicly debated . |
| 6 | His cruel and callous comments about the murder made me shiver . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A face comes through the glass door , and all of the reflections make me see Evan . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 13 | But only when I reached the washed sky of the Thames did I dare to pull over and negotiate my fear . |
| 14 | That evening one of the Corporals made me clean out the crow 's cage ; I lifted the large black bird out and parked it on the gravel beside a flowerbed . |
| 15 | Anyway , love it is that seems to have smacked me one now , and I 'm standing there hugging her in that thin nightdress and the thought of those bastards with the dog makes me squeeze her till it hurts . |
| 16 | The field was laid out in strips about two feet apart and only after pushing into the crop did I realize that the plants were trained up a trellis of almost invisible wires and that I was in a hop field — a ‘ beer field ’ , as Duncan would have called it . |
| 17 | I only became aware of the truth when in July Grace wrote from the front to let me know that Charlie was being sent home following the second battle of the Marne . |
| 18 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 19 | When a sound in the darkness made me catch my breath — |
| 20 | A large black Cadillac stops in the road to let me cross before pulling in . |
| 21 | ‘ Only when it was in the net did I realise what size it was and it weighed 26 ob 8 oz , ’ added John who went on to bank five other pike , two of 8 lb 8 oz , and others of 10 lb , 11lb and 14 lb . |
| 22 | Both were smoking and the pungent smell of Gauloise tobacco so early in the morning made me feel sick . |
| 23 | Only in the evenings did I spend some time with Mr Rochester , and I was careful not to allow him to hold me in his arms or kiss me . |
| 24 | This county pays for a full time union official this is extravagant , one full timer for five hundred members , that is way over the top let me tell you . |
| 25 | which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position . |
| 26 | I do n't know how they 've done it but the typography on the signs makes me want to pronounce the word Edin-burg , and I live in the place , for God 's sake . |
| 27 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 28 | When we were naughty he 'd give Fred the strap but he 'd sit me on the mantelpiece to make me mind my manners . |
| 29 | Looking at the road makes me notice that old white van . |
| 30 | Seeing it on the noticeboard at the workhouse made me think … but I ca n't be sure any more . |