Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As President of the National Union for the year I read the message which contained Macmillan 's decision . |
| 2 | During the night I hear the harsh squeal of a fox , a long way off , answered by a staccato bark from one of the dogs . |
| 3 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 4 | What is the commitment like for display unit during the year I get the impression it 's not used as much as it used to be |
| 5 | As the director I have the big advantage that I know all the melodies . |
| 6 | I have played here in England now for five or six years and no one has complained about the way I swing the ball . |
| 7 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 8 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |
| 9 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 10 | On top of the cistern I spy the new vinyl doll they have — for who knows what weird reason — bought me . |
| 11 | I never even learned the name of the man I spent the next two days with . |
| 12 | He said ’ I believe at the end of the day I made the wrong decision ’ . |
| 13 | At the end of the day I had the satisfaction of presiding in the Lords debate on the Bill and noting the very last words in Barbara Castle 's account of the affair : ‘ Now , unexpectedly , I have received a letter of ‘ appreciation ’ from Harold for the ‘ hard work and long hours ’ I have put in over the consultants ' ‘ package ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I could hear their croaking and their arguments and they came ever nearer until suddenly out of the mist I saw the grey shadow of a wing and wet spike of a beak . |
| 15 | Then in the last two lines of the appendix I read the panel on doctrine seeks permission for the joint commission to meet twice yearly as necessary to study documents of doctrinal interest . |
| 16 | With the last of the petrol I covered the body of the catapult and the used-up bottle of the ‘ thrower where they lay on the sand and set fire to them . |
| 17 | The lenders of money have an obligation to lend prudently and if they do not check the creditworthiness of the borrower I think the debt should not be enforceable . |
| 18 | Sitting in the back of the car I watched the suburbs going by under the street lights . |
| 19 | Standing on top of the world I felt the pull of the cool gold beyond Skye dragging me further and further south , warmer and warmer . |
| 20 | But I was more of a dogsbody really — I was ‘ allowed ’ to help with conveyancing , but most of the time I made the coffee and did bits of typing , especially if the other secretary , Doreen , was absent . |
| 21 | But most of the time I studied the book and stared , fascinated , at the pictures . |
| 22 | Part of the time I feel the point of the barrel jabbing at my neck . |
| 23 | ‘ At the end of the meeting I said the information could not be used until he had clearance from me . ’ |
| 24 | All is silent — the sun is set and as the branches of the woodland trees reflect in the gentle water of the pool I feel the whole of existence draw closer around me as my capacity for description dissolves into an experience of the infinite . |
| 25 | The capital sum would have been paid indirectly to the settlor ( see the case of Potts v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 443 especially at 460 where Lord Oaksey states : having regard to the object of the statute I think the words " paid directly or indirectly to the settlor " should be held to mean paid into the settlor 's hands or into the hands of someone accountable to him ) . |
| 26 | Throughout the day I left the cottage door open . |
| 27 | Beneath the shirt I saw the outline of her breasts . |
| 28 | with the way I view the transcription system at the moment . |
| 29 | As Taff and I ducked down into the trench I upset the remains of my meal over the floor . |
| 30 | I remembered that I too hated the dust , and as I imagined the walk into the desert I felt the sky come low and very close . |