Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an effort even to fetch coal from outside , and a herculean struggle was called for each time I opened the garage doors which faced the prevailing gales . |
| 2 | During that time I had the misfortune to visit the infamous Boggo road gaol ; I stress that I was a visitor . |
| 3 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 4 | What it does is it means that there is a proper look each year at the finances of each individual firm er and er if there are things which are wrong , they are reported straight away and that really I think is the lesser of all of this with B C C I , er that er where things are not all they should be that they are dealt with and they are reported quickly and these orders , Madam Deputy Speaker , go a long way to helping to ensure that and for that reason I believe the house should warmly welcome them . |
| 5 | During this presentation I explained the move from input to output model , the use of functional analysis to identify possible competencies , the writing of outcomes in competence terms and the performance criteria associated with the outcomes . |
| 6 | During this period I finalised the details of how my care needs would be met . |
| 7 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 8 | During this time I browsed the book-stores , and resisted the temptation to steal two or three interesting volumes , among them De Gaulle 's foreign policy monograph . |
| 9 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 10 | For some reason I found the cardigan really offensive . |
| 11 | For this purpose I line the cone first with kitchen foil and then cover the outside with knitting , tying the point very firmly and finishing it with a tassel or small ‘ frill ’ . |
| 12 | For this purpose I choose the country depicted on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey ( sixth edition ) , which runs from the edge of Oxford northwards to a few miles beyond Banbury , and from Chipping Norton on the west to beyond Brackley in Northamptonshire on the east . |
| 13 | So for this year I made the computerisation funds part of the wider fund available to FHSAs to support not merely computerisation but the extension of ancillary staff in general practice and the development of new accommodation facilities for primary health care . |
| 14 | For this review I asked the PR firm promoting FAXgrabber to send me a fax so I could demonstrate the program in operation . |
| 15 | After such suffering I have the right to happiness , but my mind is in revolt , and my burning protest is only the cry of my soul to hasten the revelations of truth and justice . |
| 16 | There was here some enquiry and the that enquiry as a matter of public policy I understand the documents are n't to be available , even if they assist the police , or if they assist the other side . |
| 17 | Aye everything was gi really fantastic the people that helped the people that gave to the strike , out of this world I know the help they had was really fantastic . |
| 18 | Now I suggest Chairman that there are number of on your paper which probably the Committee could really of this stage I think the sort of important ones . |
| 19 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 20 | There was a series of scholarly exhibitions , but again , the main focus being on the pictures in the collection , and against that background I think the 1980s were a wonderful period . |
| 21 | Under that system I used the first term almost entirely as a preparation for the teaching practice itself . |
| 22 | With unerring instinct I found the most expensive . |
| 23 | Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it . |
| 24 | With feverish speed I mixed the drug . |
| 25 | With special affection I remember the metro railway enthusiasts who , confronted by rigorous structuralist films or scenes of sexual and scatalogical excess , walked out of the cinema in baffled confusion during the first NFT International Underground Film Festival and indignantly demanded their money back after having booked for a whole season of what seemed like fascinating specialist delights : German Underground , American Underground , Italian Underground . |
| 26 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 27 | In that direction I understand the Indians , Pakistanis and Sri Lankans have offered a total of about £1 million more to help pay for cricket in developing countries . |
| 28 | In that direction I understand the Indians , Pakistanis and Sri Lankans have offered a total of about £1 million more to help pay for cricket in developing countries . |
| 29 | Well in that case I think the cheapest cheapest alternative yeah is erm , if you 're gon na do er something like that , would be a barn dance in the hall down Edinburgh Way er which you get quite cheap |
| 30 | With all sincerity er Mr Chairman on behalf of the people who live and work in that area I move the amendment . |