Example sentences of "i [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in . |
| 2 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 3 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 4 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Am I in the same room ? ’ she asked . |
| 6 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 7 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 8 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 9 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 10 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |
| 11 | She regards me with the same bright smile as her child 's , but tears are rolling down her face and her eyes say , ‘ I 'm losing her . ’ |
| 12 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 13 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 14 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 15 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 16 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 17 | I mean , it would n't surprise me in the least if , if you analyzed this dream you discovered it had nothing to do with being at school and nothing to do with taking exams . |
| 18 | ‘ DO N'T MENTION me in the same paragraph as Ace ! ’ |
| 19 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 20 | ‘ I feel very angry that you always see me in the same negative way . |
| 21 | The aim is to have about three suits per series — I certainly do n't want to come prancing on every week in something different , but neither do I want people to groan when they see me in the same old suit . |
| 22 | He quoted me in the same paragraph , but somehow omitted some key words about the commitment of both Novell and USL to preserving the business model by which USL serves its licensees . |
| 23 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 24 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 25 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 26 | Mbanefo was a splendid man of total integrity and his colleagues impressed me in the same way . |
| 27 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 28 | If lightning did strike me in the same minute , it would be treated as a miracle . |
| 29 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 30 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |