Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] i [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just great to have Marie touching me like this . |
| 2 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 3 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 4 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 5 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 6 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |
| 7 | If there is any attempt to bypass me in this matter , you shall all know of it ! ’ |
| 8 | One such benefactor called me on that recent morning when the old fellow with the hooked nose drifted into his final coma . |
| 9 | See I hoped wi David to ring me before half past three before he sets off , and he has n't done yet . |
| 10 | The swirling shapes remind me of those kitsch 1960s lamps . |
| 11 | ’ Rick Astley introduced me to these giant goldfish and I 've become totally hooked . |
| 12 | Why should I require animals to join me in some mutual admiration society or even make them honorary members ? |
| 13 | They made no attempt to molest me in any way , and after having hugged the post for about five minutes they went over to see if any of the Museums were open . |
| 14 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 15 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |
| 16 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 18 | A small Palestinian boy led me up some steps to the side of the building and the woman ushered me inside . |
| 19 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Tell Governor Nicholson to ring me on this number as soon as possible . ’ |
| 22 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 23 | Your outlook reminds me of another saying : ‘ Where there 's muck , there 's brass . ’ |
| 24 | His work reminded me of that of Kyffin Williams , the Artist of Anglesey . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ I sarcastically retorted , ‘ just some French bravos welcoming me to this Godforsaken city ! |
| 26 | I invited Reinhard to join me in some parallel experiments in chicks ; to our delight , 2-Dgal , injected either just before or up to a couple of hours after training , blocked fucose incorporation into the chick brain glycoproteins and produced amnesia in animals tested twenty-four hours later . |
| 27 | ‘ Heaven preserve me from all women ; they 're nothing but a damned nuisance when they try to ensure my number-one driver is handicapped before the race has even started ! ’ |
| 28 | The use of acrylic colours in my palette allows me in all aspects of landscape painting to correct and add light ; in fact it enables me to work more in the manner of an oil painter . |
| 29 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 30 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |