Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb base] [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 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |
| 5 | But there is no reason why you should not try other foods , although I advise against a diet of all dried food . |
| 6 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 10 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 11 | By now it has sold out , so I opt for a gin and tonic , at a price commensurate with a drink at the Ritz . |
| 12 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew most of the drivers would take it easy so I put in an attack , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |
| 15 | I am starting to puff a bit now so I stop behind a Ford Capri and try to get my breath back . |
| 16 | I can see this light shining from the side , so I squeeze through a couple of trolleys to see if I can get out that way . |
| 17 | Margaret Jones : ‘ I remember David asked me to get my dressmaker to taper his trousers and before long other members of his form were also getting me to taper their trousers , so I suppose in a way I was almost helping them to rebel against Mr Frampton . ’ |
| 18 | Sergei draws black , so I open with a dull pawn to king four , which he mimics , as he does my next three moves . |
| 19 | 11.01am : Pavement feels softer than usual , so I lie for a while before crawling to the ‘ Suck and Syphon ’ , Editor 's favourite pub . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've always thought of the guitar as another voice , so I start with a voice , singing along with the vocal , and from time to time you can hear a place where other voices would come in , like backing harmonies , which then become part of it . |
| 21 | The ‘ white ’ of the sky and clouds appears to me not as pure white , but as a very pale tone , so I start with a wash of cadmium orange fading out from the horizon upwards . |
| 22 | ‘ Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day . |
| 23 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 24 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 25 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
| 26 | I like it brown you know , if I go to a party . |
| 27 | Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that |
| 28 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |
| 29 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 30 | He summed up his own fate in a brief description of life as one of football 's miscreants : ‘ If I go into a bar and have a lager shandy , ’ he said in 1984 , ‘ word goes back that I 'm knocking back bottles of champagne . |