Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also to you — the readers — for buying my first book , and for the many letters I received , mainly nostalgic . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't say as much for the few farmers I 've met — always with the exception of Mr Jarvis , of course . |
| 3 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 4 | For the same reason I dictate my memoirs in the centre of a maze . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 6 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 7 | Were we talking about the same sister I wondered . |
| 8 | Quite apart from the ones I killed ( and they were all about the same age I was when I murdered them ) I can think of at least three of our family who went to whatever they imagined their Maker was like in unusual ways . |
| 9 | About the same time I heard gunfire . |
| 10 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 11 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 12 | After a little way I halted and looked back . |
| 13 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 14 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 15 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 16 | I did n't quite close the door , and after a few moments I could hear her footsteps walking briskly past . |
| 17 | He disappeared into the stable and after a few moments I peeped inside . |
| 18 | After a few minutes I felt pins and needles in my behind , my blood pressure was fine and I was allowed to sit up again . |
| 19 | After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief . |
| 20 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 21 | After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before . |
| 22 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
| 23 | After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still . |
| 24 | After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to . |
| 25 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 26 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
| 27 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 28 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 29 | After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move . |
| 30 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |