Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking Harry gingerly with me I moved to the left , towards the wall , and with great relief found that there was indeed a walkway there at about the height of my waist . |
| 2 | And the car just went like this into the middle of the road slowly towards me I swerved onto the grass |
| 3 | As a result of what one of the men ( the witness ) John Smith said to me I spoke to the accused etc . ’ |
| 4 | Julia , this is Peter Suvarov , whom I knew during the war . ’ |
| 5 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 6 | Was that woman maybe Gaynor , whom I knew with the act of love ? |
| 7 | It was already nearly dusk and I supposed the Dutch people whom I saw on the pavements and on bicycles were hurrying to get home before the curfew . |
| 8 | I I looked at the fabrics in the Libertys |
| 9 | Well I lo I I looked at the fifty and then |
| 10 | Yeah well as I say I I lived in the east end of London and that that 's how it was done there but I dare say that other places organized it |
| 11 | I I said to the chap he said did you have a good day , this little guy sitting next to me he answered yeah , good day yes did you see us ? |
| 12 | Erm Dick I I walked round the site on Friday with er Paul and S Paul and Stuart because Paul has been I do n't necessarily think this for you I do n't know why I said Dick then . |
| 13 | I I knew of the existence of this of this report went to the enquiry on this Tuesday by mistake , but I two |
| 14 | Well funnily enough I went down there last week , and I must admit I I came round the corner and there was one particular vehicle still does it . |
| 15 | But I did n't look , I did n't stop , it was raining so bad Thursday morning and windy that I I went to the market , I cut straight through and went up and Di went to get the paper then he went . |
| 16 | The point I I simply wanted to make which is why I I sat through the debate , erm is the honourable member for Edinburgh Central er in his er speech er which I I must say I did expect , called for stronger regulations , er we had the argument the other week about whether there should be statutory regulations or whether we should make er the er self regulation system that we have with financial services industries work . |
| 17 | So I I sat by the side of this other car for about five minutes you know ? |
| 18 | Erm I I missed at the beginning perhaps , that 's your present job still is it ? |
| 19 | I recognised one of the Commandos as someone I knew before the war . |
| 20 | Nobody I saw in the streets ever looked up . |
| 21 | ‘ The movies are true , ’ screamed my eyes from the back of the yellow can which I took from the airport . |
| 22 | Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not . |
| 23 | And according to the erm agreement which I made with the franchisee in June eighty nine erm his rent is also due for review er this August . |
| 24 | However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art . |
| 25 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
| 26 | My honourable friend from the front benches made the point about the gaps in er these regulations , they do n't cover Lloyds , they do n't cover pension schemes , pension funds they do n't cover banks which are domiciled er in the er in in the United States but er we also have the point which I made in the interjection to the minister that unless there 's a duty to detect fraud er er as well as report it , it 's really doubtful if the auditors can perform er the function . |
| 27 | Perhaps these contradictory interpretations illustrate the dangers , to which I alluded in the earlier discussion , of assuming an automatic association between classicism and positivism and specific political ideologies . |
| 28 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
| 29 | I was crying outright now , and he made a move towards me which I sensed in the darkness , but I lashed out with my hand and knocked his arm down , and cried , " Leave me alone , that 's what you want to do ! " |
| 30 | They swarmed round the town at night and came close to the tent in which I slept in the consulate compound . |