Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the last consideration , again I believe that to be a location question which I propose to deal with under the heading two C. |
| 2 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 3 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 4 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 5 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 6 | Er can I I started to comment on about the er , er bank accounts which are you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table and I think we would go further that er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names and all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of ownership of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would of er at least alerted these financial institutions , as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension fund and they still have ignored it in the case that er they did , but er er they would ha not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension funds assets . |
| 7 | So he left a very deep impression on me ; it was something I knew I had to work towards in the years ahead . |
| 8 | It was the bald man I had spoken with on the video trunk-call screen . |
| 9 | Lord Harris agreed to be chairman and a group of academics , about half of those whom Robertson had approached , turned up to an informal first meeting at Dean 's Yard , Westminster ( ‘ Suddenly all these distinguished geezers I had spoken to on the phone were there in this room ’ ) . |
| 10 | Nobody I had spoken to in the train , or on the ferry , had ever visited Moila , which must support , so I was told by one slow-spoken Highlander , no more than thirty folk in all . |
| 11 | But that 's the latest thing I 've heard of on the one anyway . |
| 12 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 13 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 14 | Many linguists in recent years have questioned the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and their work now serves to undermine rather than to support those arguments regarding literacy that I have referred to as the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 15 | He rolls up his sleeves and sets in on the dishes that I have eaten from over the course of the day . |
| 16 | Well I have done in in the past . |
| 17 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 18 | EVERYONE I have spoken to about the New Zealand tour of Wales agrees that , if they are going to be beaten by anyone , it will be by one of the clubs rather than by the national side . |
| 19 | ‘ Among those I have talked to over the past years , ’ he said , ‘ I have found none who believed that Libya alone paid for , planned and carried out the crime — exactly none . ’ |
| 20 | The same way with the bombardier waste gunner , radio operators , engineers and all the gunners , so that our crews were all buddy-buddy. crew and my crew were buddy-buddy from the minute we were formed , right on through , I guess you might say the rest of our lives here , even though we have not gotten together since the war but I have talked to on the phone one time when I was in New York City . |