Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am very happy , in fact , that the whole the whole process the whole business of erm switching the system has been accepted and in fact even welcomed I think by the unions . |
| 2 | Erm I would like to formally second Mr because I followed a situation where the previous minister had baptised anyone and when I arrived I discussed with the session what our policy on baptism was and we concurred that we should follow the nineteen sixty three law but apply it under grace and with the spirit of God in mind and we had some very difficult situations when people said to me no I have no time for God in my life but I want you to baptise my baby . |
| 3 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 4 | What little human warmth I required I garnered from the aunts and cousins , who still came to Cliff Top for their annual holiday . |
| 5 | Erm we went I went into the hall and saw that fire . |
| 6 | Ken , would you say though that erm one or two recent announcements connected with these judgments , I think including the er the judge in a recent M C C case which actually went I think against the administrators , b on shares but actually the judge said if the argument had been made that er these assets were held er on a trustee basis , then I might have made a different decision . |
| 7 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 8 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 9 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 10 | Although I slipped in the odd prop or two , and tried to bend briefs towards my interests , on the whole I felt I watched from the sidelines as the plethora of ecology and natural history books of the 1980s appeared . |
| 11 | I know erm I thought I wrote to the electricity board in , I wrote to somebody about erm how er things should be labelled about how efficient they are when using electricity . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 13 | I took I went to the doctor 's and he gave me medicinal duty . |
| 14 | Once , middle-class muesli-belt dinner party guests would choke on their chardonnay when they learned I wrote for the Sun . |
| 15 | What did I do with the car keys ? |
| 16 | Go and collect my prizes What did I do with the bloody tickets now ? |
| 17 | What did I do with the scissors ? |
| 18 | What did I think of the prospect of an up-and-coming Minister of State called Norman Tebbit taking over the job ? |
| 19 | And she said to me what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back . |
| 20 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 21 | But if I did n't know where I was , what did I mean by the word ? |
| 22 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 23 | Did I change in the night ? |
| 24 | Never did I speak for the truth 's sake but for my own … ‘ |
| 25 | How did I recover from the debacle ? |
| 26 | to your Council did I knock on the door and say standing for the Liberal Democrats , they said well we 're not sure it 's the way we are going to vote for you , we may vote for somebody else . |
| 27 | Thus did I emerge from the night tunnel of restless body movement . |
| 28 | Ooh , did I cry at the end ! ’ |
| 29 | What did I get in the talk in eighteen minutes ? |
| 30 | For the next fourteen days I spent all the daylight hours either on the forest road , on which no-one but myself ever set foot , or in the jungle , and only twice during that period did I get near the tigress . |