Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time of the building of the gardens of our minds makes me think of the Pacific Ocean where insects spin the sunlight and the salt water , and weave them into the most beautiful oases of the sea . |
| 2 | You do n't know how many girls have begged me to come to the Casablanca Club , and you are the only one I have asked . ’ |
| 3 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 4 | Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night . |
| 5 | And I asked for the Kommandant 's help to have him released . |
| 6 | DNase I footprints on the VZV gene 62 promoter . |
| 7 | I countered with the Nivea , the boots , the polish . |
| 8 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 9 | He was the first friend I made in the West Riding , when we were both new to the cold Yorkshire wastes . |
| 10 | But certainly I think I mean during the Falklands war Margaret Thatcher was briefing opposition leaders and other senior politicians as to what was going on . |
| 11 | For a moment another thought crossed my mind — that if I lived in the United States while undertaking an ‘ experiment ’ I might be sued if I failed . |
| 12 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 13 | ‘ For much of my life I lived in the Hacienda de Nieve surrounded by savage formality . |
| 14 | It was in Liverpool , because I lived in the Wirral then and I used to travel over there every day to put in my hours . |
| 15 | No one I met in the Yukon had known Service , but there was still a highly commercial bar bearing the name — the Malamute Saloon . |
| 16 | ‘ So off I went , and when I got to the Severn Bridge , I thought to myself , ‘ I can go straight on and take him to Potter 's and get about four hundred quid carcase value , or turn right for the University and probably have nothing … |
| 17 | I put the visor down before I got out on to Gresham Street and almost walked into the edge of a glass door , but by the time I got to the Kawasaki my eyes had adjusted themselves . |
| 18 | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night . |
| 19 | yes I got into the Ashington Floaters as well , Jean S one A |
| 20 | On my last visit I swam in the Grjótagjá pools — a true delight for someone so young and so unused to mixed nude dipping . |
| 21 | Five years later Sykes turned the knife even further : ‘ You remember that salmon I caught on the Ayr in 1962 ? |
| 22 | NO MATTER what I say on the Everton debate , I 'm going to get stick . |
| 23 | I MOSEYED into the NME offices bearing a still-throbbing psychic wound and a mittful of rejection letters . |
| 24 | ‘ Dance Energy is only a phase in my life and unless I can do every idea I want on the BBC , then I 'll obviously have to do them somewhere else . ’ |
| 25 | and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because |
| 26 | As I mentioned in the Sunday Times article , Pomiane was fond of hot beetroot , and used it often , mixing vinegar and cream with it , a very un-French combination , and by no means the only one of his unconventional suggestions in the domain of vegetable cookery to arouse the scorn of reactionaries . |
| 27 | What I learnt of the Al Fayeds settled one question but raised another . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , thank you — I ate with the Freitas family . |
| 29 | But instead of going there , I sneaked into the Trunchbull 's room . |
| 30 | And I booked at the Claremont which is , twenty eight pounds . |