Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] i [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 2 | But dad 's attitude is your mother 's looked after me all these years , it 's my turn ! |
| 3 | She was still looking admiringly around when , ‘ I 'm so happy that you agreed to dine with me this evening , ’ Lubor stated warmly . |
| 4 | My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency . |
| 5 | The sun 's warmth falls on my body , its rays filling me and driving from me all fear and shadows . |
| 6 | My postbag , and trips around the constituency , suggest to me that — in general — people are relieved that the community charge is going , and consider the council tax fair , reasonable and decent . |
| 7 | Ail these questions — and there are many more — also suggest to me another bigger question , the one that Victoria had noted , the extent of my own involvement . |
| 8 | True and lasting peace is found alone in the One who said ‘ Come unto me all ye that are ’ heavy ’ laden , and I will give you rest . ’ |
| 9 | My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further . |
| 10 | What matters to me most is the way I conduct myself . ’ |
| 11 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 12 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
| 13 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 14 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 15 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 16 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 17 | occurred to me that . |
| 18 | On our last night in Vorarlberg , watching nine-month-old Elisabeth crawling round the dining room and finding a welcome at every table , it occurred to me that , right from babyhood , children instinctively know whether they 're welcome . |
| 19 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
| 20 | It occurred to me such deceptive ‘ little angels ’ would not be above nicking the odd relic if they happened to come across it . |
| 21 | The following day , while flogging up Beinn Tulaichean , it occurred to me this is a scheme capable of considerable development , and a National Munro Exchange could be set up — computerised of course . |
| 22 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 23 | Something that occurred to me this week . |
| 24 | lt was almost the first remark he had addressed to me all evening . |
| 25 | He 's bitching at me all of the time , he 's complaining , and he 's apt to be yelling at me , too . |
| 26 | ’ You know , ’ she said , ’ I can tell two things from the way everybody looks at me this morning . |
| 27 | I find it easier to get angry at the stuff happening around me these days because I 'm no longer naive enough to think it 'll simply sort itself out . |
| 28 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 29 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 30 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |