Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I confirm that I returned from the Gulf late last night . |
| 2 | This is an interesting game that I discovered in the United States . |
| 3 | The message that I received from the NRA was : ’ The answer to your question is no . |
| 4 | It read : ‘ I ask you to consider that the effects of the legal action that I undertook in the Berne district court concerning my non-participation in the European Cup this year are null and void . |
| 5 | And I returned to the States in considerable agitation : if national white media continued their de facto denial of his campaign , Jackson might really lose the game on grounds of fair-play relentlessly circumvented for the purpose of defeating him . |
| 6 | Eleven forty-five , and I strolled into the Jack the Ripper , the roughest and least local of my many locals . |
| 7 | Derek and I went to the Guildhall . |
| 8 | Anyway , Alison and I went to the Mar Y Sol and Tanit was n't there . |
| 9 | And I booked at the Claremont which is , twenty eight pounds . |
| 10 | And I asked for the Kommandant 's help to have him released . |
| 11 | There was only one thing for me to do and I dodged behind the Toyota . |
| 12 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 13 | and I stayed in the Clarks Shiraz hotel . |
| 14 | And I started on the Monday morning , Dad did the sandwiches , since he was head chef in the morning for the family , and off he sent me down the road , was n't too bad it was all down hill , early in the morning it was good for you , down hill . |
| 15 | The Fellowship , by most standards , was generous : my wife and I travelled to the U.S.A. ( with our baby son ) on the liner The Queen Elizabeth , and travelled home to England on her sister ship The Queen Mary . |
| 16 | For a moment another thought crossed my mind — that if I lived in the United States while undertaking an ‘ experiment ’ I might be sued if I failed . |
| 17 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 18 | And I know what I 'm talking about because I went to the Isle of Wight recently . |
| 19 | It was in Liverpool , because I lived in the Wirral then and I used to travel over there every day to put in my hours . |
| 20 | I have preferred Irish humour ever since I heard of the Dublin man visiting London who wrote to his wife … ‘ and if you do not receive this letter you are to let me know at once ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ A particularly heartening statistic when I checked the figures before I came to the Netherlands was that this market — with a relatively small population of only 15 million inhabitants — continues to be the biggest export market for Wedgwood in Continental Europe , ’ he said . |
| 22 | no , no , no this is the minute which was posted to you before I went to the States |
| 23 | I am particularly afraid of strange dentists , so before I went into the RAF I made sure my teeth were in order . |
| 24 | When I played with the Lego I built a bridge . |
| 25 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 26 | ‘ So off I went , and when I got to the Severn Bridge , I thought to myself , ‘ I can go straight on and take him to Potter 's and get about four hundred quid carcase value , or turn right for the University and probably have nothing … |
| 27 | When I returned to the UK in 1937 , just as the Expansion was getting underway and when the RAF was some 33,000 strong , one could see more people at a mid-week match at Arsenal . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Sammy took me under his wing when I came into the Northern Ireland team . |
| 29 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 30 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |