Example sentences of "i by the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It 's also very important from the adults ' point of view that erm it does n't matter if you are a so called single parent , which , I by the way , am , or whether you are within erm a couple but actually in in fact you 're , you 're a single parent because you 're getting no support .
2 And the thing is , by the time I by the time I chased her I was so I do n't know , do n't even know where the photo is now .
3 ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw .
4 For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café .
5 That 's not me by the way in case you thought I was phoning myself it 's not me .
6 Let me by the way put in a footnote here .
7 That 's me by the way .
8 Do you think you could keep away from me by the way ?
9 The driver grabbed me by the shoulder and asked for my fare .
10 I woke up when someone shook me by the shoulder .
11 But I did get another tingle of excitement when I swam a shade too near a jagged reef , and she grabbed me by the shoulder to pull me away .
12 Then he moved , brushing past Ward , and at that moment Iris Sunderby reached out , seizing me by the shoulder and letting out a scream as she fell to the ground , pulling me down on top of her .
13 He grasped me by the shoulder .
14 I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) .
15 ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team .
16 I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’
17 The soldier seized me by the hair and pushed me across the garden .
18 The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names .
19 I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down .
20 ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’
21 I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than
22 The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it .
23 Andy yelled , throwing the keys down and grabbing me by the collar and slamming me back against the side of the Landie .
24 At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food .
25 I and my new friend then went to Ku where he took another 15,000 pesetas off me — the price had gone up , he said — and he parked me by the dance-floor and said he 'd be back in five minutes .
26 Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money .
27 My letters to Herta are brought to me by the valet .
28 But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem .
29 He 'll see me by the fire , leaning against the mantelpiece , and know how things really are ; how they ought to be .
30 It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat .
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