Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
2 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
3 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
4 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
5 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
6 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
7 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
8 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
9 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
10 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
11 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
12 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
13 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
14 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
15 | ‘ And I think it 's going to be very important that I sell it to the Congress and the American people , and that we have a partnership here . ’ |
16 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
17 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
18 | ‘ Good afternoon , ladies and gentlemen , it is with great pleasure that I introduce you to the magic of television … ‘ |
19 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
20 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
21 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
22 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
23 | Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace . |
24 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
25 | It is for that reason that I include it on the shortlist for the Worst Building in the World title . |
26 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
27 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
28 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
29 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
30 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |