Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 2 | The smell of burning plastic stayed in my nose and the bright glare of the burning mixture danced in my eyes as I hurried to the next hole , glancing at my watch as I did so . |
| 3 | The tears were still pissing from my eyes when I fled to the can . |
| 4 | I have covered the whole year , but because January is in your shops , February already subscribed , March imminent and April only recently covered in my monthly column ( 11th December ) , I have not been as detailed with these four months as I have with the rest of the year . |
| 5 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 6 | I should mention other relevant matters before I refer to the statutory provisions . |
| 7 | It was what they used to call a " banger " and it exploded at my feet as I hurried along the dark passage in answer to the door bell 's ring , making me leap into the air in terror . |
| 8 | Water oozed through the sodden cardboard inner soles , hastily fitted over the holes in my cheap plastic shoes as I stood in the rain outside the courtroom . |
| 9 | Er there and er it 's therefore er the best use we can make of it , not specifically for any particular school in any particular circumstances as I read in the , that the , that the Tories proposals have been in , on , on , on the issue . |
| 10 | It must be ten years since I went to the optician and I keep promising myself I will go when the opportunity presents itself , because I love to read . |
| 11 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 12 | Two years since I started on the big glass . |
| 13 | He went on , ‘ Matt lived here alone for years before I came on the scene . |
| 14 | They all shook hands with me , and the Frenchman gave me a bag containing one dozen eggs before I clambered over the wall and into the orchard . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’ |
| 17 | We 'd probably blow round the edges when I put in the freezer . |
| 18 | A five I do n't count , I only count the ends when I got to the point where I could n't go any further . |
| 19 | She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't seem to have any more clout with your two friends than I have with the three of you . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Quigley held out her arms as I came into the hall . |
| 22 | Little terns fished out at sea ; I could hear their squabblings as I walked across the sand hills . |
| 23 | I only change into a fighter in the last ten minutes before I get into the ring . ’ |
| 24 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 25 | I did n't have any others so I went to the police station in stocking feet . |
| 26 | Now , in these quiet moments as I wait for the world about to awake , I find myself going over in my mind again passages from Miss Kenton 's letter . |
| 27 | George stared at the bagpipes as I clambered into the passenger seat beside him and sat with the pipes on my lap . |
| 28 | Now the areas that I 've identified are the same ones as I put on the board last week . |
| 29 | I can not tell you my thoughts as I sat on the stand and watched the Arsenal playing far below their proper form . |
| 30 | For these reasons when I heard about the work of Earthwatch I wanted to find out more about it . |