Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning , then , to the relationship of criminal law and legal theory , I asked what legal theory might contribute to criminal law and I dealt with two central issues ; first , the limits of exposition imposed by the nature of legal rules which , I argue , are essentially incomplete and therefore incapable of a final , exhaustive statement ; and , secondly , the nature of methodological purity , where I argue against a tendency to distort data to fit a favoured critical principle . |
| 2 | I basically leave them stock , except for the lead pickup , where I go with a Lace Sensor Super Lead . |
| 3 | Down the street opposite , Spring Avenue , and towards the car park , where I head for a silver Ford Granada , so that I can pause and hide a mo , to see how the pursuit is going . |
| 4 | My next call was to a local Somerset newspaper , where I spoke to a gentleman about the subject of the Chalice Well cover . |
| 5 | I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman . |
| 6 | But there is no reason why you should not try other foods , although I advise against a diet of all dried food . |
| 7 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
| 8 | My first machine cost £22 , which was just slightly less than I earned in a month at the office . |
| 9 | There was-no sign of a mansion , so I knocked at a cottage door and enquired . |
| 10 | By now it has sold out , so I opt for a gin and tonic , at a price commensurate with a drink at the Ritz . |
| 11 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 12 | To make this even more ridiculous , I decided to select the most unlikely container I could think of , so I opted for a supermarket plastic carrier bag . |
| 13 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 14 | I was awake early , so I went for a swim . |
| 15 | Not a wink all night did I get , so I went for a breath of air . ’ |
| 16 | There now seemed no need even to ask for help ; my needs were known , so I waited for a cure . |
| 17 | The newsagent 's , alas , was closed , so I looked at a couple of travel posters , then wandered back . |
| 18 | Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size . |
| 19 | I can see this light shining from the side , so I squeeze through a couple of trolleys to see if I can get out that way . |
| 20 | Fortunately we had an alternative target so I asked for a course . |
| 21 | Margaret Jones : ‘ I remember David asked me to get my dressmaker to taper his trousers and before long other members of his form were also getting me to taper their trousers , so I suppose in a way I was almost helping them to rebel against Mr Frampton . ’ |
| 22 | 11.01am : Pavement feels softer than usual , so I lie for a while before crawling to the ‘ Suck and Syphon ’ , Editor 's favourite pub . |
| 23 | The ‘ white ’ of the sky and clouds appears to me not as pure white , but as a very pale tone , so I start with a wash of cadmium orange fading out from the horizon upwards . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've always thought of the guitar as another voice , so I start with a voice , singing along with the vocal , and from time to time you can hear a place where other voices would come in , like backing harmonies , which then become part of it . |
| 25 | Olympia food prices , I remembered , were too much for underpaid booksellers , so I huddled in a corner with my bagels and hard-boiled eggs from home . |
| 26 | ‘ Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day . |
| 27 | Once I talked with a doctor about one such personality , asking if in his opinion X did not need psychiatric help , just so he could let go a little . |
| 28 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 29 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 30 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |