Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 2 | From Janet 's Foss my way led across the road and through a gate where the Dales Park have placed a plaque telling me that this is Gordale Scar and to keep to the path . |
| 3 | The hand of a mermaid beckoning me |
| 4 | The next day I received a telegram informing me that my request to be transferred to clerical duties at the Ministry of the Interior had been granted . |
| 5 | Take Lao-Tse 's celebrated question : ‘ If when I was asleep I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly , how do I know when I am awake that I am not a butterfly dreaming I am a man ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have never felt more comfortable in a job saying I just do not know , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ Numbers three and four concerned talking to the press and media , in particular my defiance of a directive banning me and the players from speaking to reporters . |
| 8 | He spent half a day teaching me about the various policies and endowments , the way to figure cash surrender values , the matter of group insurance , and the various approaches to a prospect by the insurance salesman . |
| 9 | There is no doubt she feels that she has paid a high price for her royal life and looks forward to the day when she can spend a weekend in Paris or , as she says , ‘ I can run along a beach without a policeman following me ’ . |
| 10 | I had to sign a paper saying I 'd be responsible for the arrears . |
| 11 | I once had a letter from a woman asking me if I could settle a dispute she was having with her partner . |
| 12 | Take Lao-Tse 's celebrated question : ‘ If when I was asleep I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly , how do I know when I am awake that I am not a butterfly dreaming I am a man ? ’ |
| 13 | I remember at the conclusion of a church house-party , a man asking me for prayer to be filled with the Spirit . |
| 14 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 15 | I usually leave a message saying I 'm having sex at the moment ring back in about three seconds . |
| 16 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 17 | He sent me a memorandum directing me to inform him in future before I write to any newspaper periodical on matters appertaining to the force . |
| 18 | When I paused to read the memorial to Jose Rizal , hero of the revolution , I turned round to find about 50 little children in a semicircle watching me open-mouthed . |
| 19 | I started to walk across to the pile and as I did , all my toys came to life and stood in a line facing me . |
| 20 | A year later , I received a letter inviting me to lunch so that I could come and see his garden . |
| 21 | ‘ George Courtney is special and sent me a letter congratulating me and saying if I need any help , just to give him a ring . |
| 22 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
| 23 | I then was sent a letter telling me that I 'd passed this exam , I then had what 's known as a medical to check that I was okay , there was no , I had no faults or injuries or health problems . |
| 24 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
| 25 | Anyway they questionedme and realised I had nothing to do with it and I got a letter saying I was completely innocent and apologising profusely |
| 26 | A few days passed , then came a letter instructing me to join my unit at Enfield , London . |
| 27 | When you heard there was a minister coming I was just afraid and looking to see would you see that dark black clothed individual coming . |
| 28 | There was a nightmare awaiting me that night ! |
| 29 | as if he was n't a maniac keeping me prisoner here . |
| 30 | You do n't seem to have much of a problem hearing me now . ’ |