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

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1 I was just telling him , they 've got big ones like that about that size I think in in Woolworths .
2 All through that evening I pleaded with Kalchu to shoot her , but he would n't , or could n't — none of us could .
3 About this time I wrote to her :
4 During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species .
5 During this period I worked as a computer programmer in Accra for a year .
6 And during this time I belonged to Toc H.
7 For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times .
8 Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it .
9 For some reason I thought of President Kennedy , bounding down the corridors of power , forever chasing the flick of a skirt , the back of a knee , the glorious in pursuit of the grateful .
10 For some reason I waited for the answer to that one .
11 After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment .
12 For this purpose I draw on a wide-ranging survey by John Lyons , which carries on naturally from the analysis by James Harris that I have just quoted .
13 Of the nine cases cited for this proposition I refer to just one , Whitehorn Brothers v. Davison [ 1911 ] 1 K.B .
14 When choosing the frame for this design I looked for something that would show off the dark red colours of the flowers and also be fairly plain , so as to balance the rather busy design .
15 Twenty years after that holiday I read in the Scotsman one morning that a St Abbs fisherman had hauled in his nets and landed a complete suit of sixteenth-century armour .
16 After some physiotherapy I hope to be fit to play next week in Telford . ’
17 ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true .
18 By the light of that candle I looked at Gillian 's face , properly , for the first time .
19 By the end of that summer I moved into this house in Lonsdale Road , Notting Hill , which was quite a little centre .
20 Some of this structure I hold in common with the structural elements of other people .
21 Way back at the start of this year I planned into the workshop schedule an exhibition piece .
22 But it reminded me , of this bloke I met in a port once .
23 Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back .
24 Obviously all of this detail I explain to you here I 'm just giving you a brief overview it 'll be explained a lot more on the training course .
25 Come on , Luke , you 're the boss , the one with all the answers , so explain how I can rid myself of this resentment I feel at having you foist yourself on me again ! ’
26 At the start of this paper I quoted from research done by Dr Almquist .
27 At any rate some of these points I speak as one who was as your Lordships know is on the whole a fairly loyal supporter of the Government .
28 Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces .
29 ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again .
30 Takahashi is one of those people I loved on sight , or with whom I just wanted to go to bed , but denied myself the opportunity , thus leaving them forever desirable in my memory .
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