Example sentences of "[prep] what i [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 2 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 3 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 4 | ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’ |
| 5 | This is an important part of what I intend by the transnational capitalist class ( TCC ) , but with two important differences . |
| 6 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 7 | Years abroad had made me wary of what I said on the telephone . |
| 8 | Enough of what I regard as a premeditated incident at Lord 's . ’ |
| 9 | The next fallacy that causes some confusion in the discussion is the persistence of what I regard as a narrow outdated approach to the notion of sovereignty . |
| 10 | In particular , it is necessary to pay close attention to the relationship of civil society ( within which I will include much of what I mean by a specific urban culture ) and state forms and processes , in a context of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ . |
| 11 | That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation . |
| 12 | I 'm only in the public eye because of what I do on the ice . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Despite what I felt as a teenager it has n't put me off marriage , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Then on 1 November I received this telegram , with what I recognised as the consciously humorous overtones of 1914 — 18 : |
| 15 | From what I saw of the match he played well . |
| 16 | But now this week , from what I put in the paper it 's obvious that we 're traders |
| 17 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 18 | Erm it it does n't er er a from what I know of the the Swindon one , five thousand pounds seems very fair . |
| 19 | " From what I know of the previous accounts the Winter Marsh investment — or error of judgment — is one of the main causes of the group 's present financial difficulties . " |
| 20 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 21 | He took it up and read : ‘ Many readers will probably have learned by now that I am being sued by Miss Hilary Robarts , the Acting Administrative Officer at Larksoken Power Station , for alleged libel arising from what I wrote in the May issue of the news-sheet . |
| 22 | ‘ From … from what I gathered from the nurse it was n't as serious as they at first thought . |
| 23 | From what I learned at the meeting I ca n't see why he thinks I 'm up to such a task , but maybe la bête a ses raisons que la belle ne connaît pas . |
| 24 | ‘ But from what I read in the diary you take them often , every day . |
| 25 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 26 | I imagine the experience of unease mixed with exhilaration often described in connection with this moment is very similar to what I felt in the Ford as the surroundings grew strange around me . |
| 27 | I now come to what I regard as the plaintiffs ' most convincing argument , namely , that paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , combined with the letter dated 23 October 1991 from the Crown Prosecution Service , provides effective protection for the defendants against the criminal consequences of having to disclose incriminating information or documents by virtue of paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order . |
| 28 | I refer to what I regard as the Labour party 's organised disruption of yesterday 's debate . |
| 29 | The second relates to what I said about the evaporation/solar-flares analogy being an external relation . |
| 30 | I go back to what I say in the beginning . |