Example sentences of "i [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's the latest thing I 've heard of on the one anyway . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He rolls up his sleeves and sets in on the dishes that I have eaten from over the course of the day . |
| 6 | Well I have done in in the past . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |