Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] i do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there were other names — Raymond Williams , someone with a name like a chamber pot , Fry — after a time I did n't even bother to learn the names . ’ |
| 2 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 3 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 4 | The carving is of a quality I do not even understand . |
| 5 | because if someone else says that and then all of a sudden I did n't know this and now I know it . |
| 6 | I do n't like being accused of a crime I did n't commit , cos I admit to things I do . |
| 7 | Oh yes they put this , this tannin down it was like a bark I do n't know what it was cos I 'm not in the leather trade , I , I do n't know much about it except that it was some by-product from the of the er tanning process , and they used to put this stuff down when people were ill . |
| 8 | How the sensor transmits the pulse into a usable driver for a tacho I do not know . |
| 9 | Listen for a guy I do n't know and he did , he does |
| 10 | I did n't think I 'd be able to keep my sanity or my family if it happened again , but there was no way I was going to let him make me sign for a loan I did n't want . |
| 11 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 12 | McMahon hardly considered it would do anything else : ‘ I sit here in my cell writing this , having served almost nine years of a life sentence for a murder I did not commit … |
| 13 | ‘ The transfer talk did get to me , I admit , and for a time I did n't know whether I was going or coming . |
| 14 | For a time I did n't know quite how to respond . |
| 15 | I mean , for a start I do n't think she should have four dogs shout out in there all the hours that they are ! |
| 16 | As a member I do not need to take a book every month . |
| 17 | Some of the houses were haunted , though as a child I did n't know they were haunted . |
| 18 | I loved it and I honestly feel it did me an enormous amount of good in calming my mind and making my body more supple ( although as a Christian I do n't practise meditative yoga ) . |
| 19 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 20 | As a feminist I did n't invert their bad habits by only talking to women — this book is about women and men , though it takes the standpoint of women as its reference point . |
| 21 | As a father I do n't have a colourful enough vocabulary . |
| 22 | I think , as a student I do n't know what I 'm gon na do and with the present erm grant system and bursary system it 's it 's even more frightening because es especially towards women , it does discriminate against women and that 's why less women are going into higher education |
| 23 | As a African I did not celebrate 200 years of Australia , |
| 24 | To write about a place I did not know might seem to be breaking one of the most quoted warnings to the novice author : " Write about what you know " . |
| 25 | I love jacket potatoes , then I wo n't , with a jacket I do n't like the jacket . |
| 26 | Possibly possibly with a pump I do n't know . |
| 27 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 28 | So I stood by the door and I never moved till he went in oh he said But with a caravan I do n't know . |
| 29 | Unless he went with a team I do n't know . |
| 30 | I looked across at Mum and found she was looking at Mrs Danby with an expression I did not recognize . |