Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 2 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 3 | Do you remember I phoned you a week or two ago about some books I wanted ? |
| 4 | And when the flat 's not in use for entertaining clients I like to make it available to all my employees . ’ |
| 5 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 6 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 7 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 8 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 9 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 10 | For some years I tended to assume that the computers would merely give us a better documented description of the language , but I do not think that that position remains tenable . |
| 11 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 12 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 13 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 14 | After 32 years I continue to enjoy my Medau by doing three classes a week — with Myrtle Mott at Plumstead , with Elsie Streek at Alderwood School and with Bridget at Sidcup and I must say that this form of movement has given me a great deal of pleasure so LONG LIVE MEDAU . |
| 15 | After fifty yards I looked back . |
| 16 | After 79 years I 've yet to meet anyone genuinely pleased at this interference with natural time . |
| 17 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 18 | After some moments I replied ‘ This arm , here ’ and indicated my left arm . |
| 19 | After some months I decided to go down to Lisbon in Portugal . |
| 20 | REAL LIFE After SIX miscarriages I knew I 'd get lucky WOMEN 'S LOOS The scandal no one talks about ! |
| 21 | After six weeks I got so worried about her , I changed to bottle-feeding , and she gained weight like there was no tomorrow . |
| 22 | A month later I saw something bright green there , and after six months I had a very small field of corn . |
| 23 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 24 | After three weeks I broached the subject . |
| 25 | I I was very keen er when I had my daughter erm I was quite happy about it and I I I used them , then after three years I did n't use them . |
| 26 | After three days I moved the decorations around and removed the divider . |
| 27 | After three days I skipped a lesson and came to see you . |
| 28 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 29 | After these reflections I formulated my demands . |
| 30 | After these conversations I began to wonder whether the Houys were right . |