Example sentences of "i a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 but he did I a favour at by bringing out er a law that said that they must provide something like this .
2 This applies very clearly to the Zapotec , who , as O'Nell puts it , ask ‘ not so much , ‘ Who am I ? ’ , but ‘ How am I a part of something ? ’
3 Erm and I a work of God 's grace a in us to make us like that .
4 I a bit like this
5 ‘ Had I a heart for falsehood framed ’ ( The Duenna ) , DS 14 .
6 Have I a nomination for the office of Lord Mayor for the year ?
7 Have I a nomination for the office of Vice Chair of Council ?
8 ‘ Am I a pot with water ? ’
9 So I thought that 's two , erm and I a couple of quid did n't I , in the card , then I thought no I wo n't put it in the card I 'll
10 If he was given them tokens or something like that , it would of been alright , but I , I , I a couple of weeks ago
11 Well , you can fetch my partner and I a stoop of liquor , angel-face , while I warn him about you .
12 and I a chair for the
13 I Western , she Eastern ; I entire , she mutilated ; I exchanging the deepest bargain of the heart with Gustave , she involved in a brief physical transaction ; I a woman of independence and resource , she a caged creature dependent on her trade with men ; I meticulous , groomed and civilised , she filthy , stinking and savage .
14 ‘ It has given my wife and I a lot of comfort .
15 I a lot of pain at the back of my eye though
16 They 've given me a theatre for a season .
17 They sent me a girl in her mid-twenties who was petite and reasonably attractive .
18 The constant view of so much hair excited in me a love of nature , wild nature , that has never waned .
19 ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’
20 I mean my belief is that if Standard Life and M and G ca n't show me a profit on a , a good managed fund , I doubt that anybody in a another institute is going to do any better .
21 Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going .
22 ‘ Piss on your XPDs , ’ I croak , ‘ and give me a swig of that fizzy water fast or I 'll disintegrate messily all over your in-tray . ’
23 Doctor Turner swears by a universal prophylactic of gin and guava juice , offering me a swig from his thermos .
24 She handed me a stack of forms .
25 Oh everything , they give me a stack of batteries , they told me to change the batteries after every three tapes
26 The beautiful blue groundwash is so sensuously placid and dreamlike ( almost aquatic ) , and the simple but elegant forms and lines animate the scene , producing in me a state of quiet limbo .
27 He rang up the hospital and got me a bed for the next week .
28 ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore .
29 There 's a couple of friends I know who might be able to give me a bed for the night .
30 You go to all the trouble of finding me a bed in a night shelter and you then get me so drunk they 'll refuse point-blank to let me in ! ’
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