Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning , then , to the relationship of criminal law and legal theory , I asked what legal theory might contribute to criminal law and I dealt with two central issues ; first , the limits of exposition imposed by the nature of legal rules which , I argue , are essentially incomplete and therefore incapable of a final , exhaustive statement ; and , secondly , the nature of methodological purity , where I argue against a tendency to distort data to fit a favoured critical principle . |
| 2 | I basically leave them stock , except for the lead pickup , where I go with a Lace Sensor Super Lead . |
| 3 | Down the street opposite , Spring Avenue , and towards the car park , where I head for a silver Ford Granada , so that I can pause and hide a mo , to see how the pursuit is going . |
| 4 | I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman . |
| 5 | My next call was to a local Somerset newspaper , where I spoke to a gentleman about the subject of the Chalice Well cover . |
| 6 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |
| 7 | But there is no reason why you should not try other foods , although I advise against a diet of all dried food . |
| 8 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 9 | When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ . |
| 10 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 11 | I 'm not er a great fan of the monarchy , although that I would say that I come from a family which is , devoted a large portion of it 's life in service and work to the royal family . |
| 12 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 13 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 14 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 15 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 16 | It seems that I count as a visitor . ’ |
| 17 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
| 18 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 19 | One day , in one of these tiny streets , with shops on either side and with stalls of street vendors in front of them , the way was so crowded that I got to a place where it was impossible to move . |
| 20 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 21 | ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant . |
| 22 | After you calmly tell me that I walked through a fucking wall ! ’ |
| 23 | Her hair was fair , so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently , Elizabeth Lavenza . |
| 24 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 25 | I wish that the Minister would respond to a point that I made in a debate last week when I spoke of the tragedy that the employment advisory service — available to prisoners both before and after their release — had been withdrawn by the Government . |
| 26 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 27 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 28 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 29 | Well I can say personally that I went from a size twelve to a twenty and its a medical problem , its the , not an eating one though , you know any thing to with any diet or any thing like that , completely medical so er it takes a bit of coping with when you 've been slim and then all of a sudden you have this weight that , no diet will remove . |
| 30 | The application to the local community is one that I put as a challenge to all : How can we help people to take seriously membership in the Eucharistic community of faith ? |