Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | This meant that I got into the Library . |
32 | But I was surprised that I got round the room , cos I 'm awful at remembering names I think I 'm gon na have to try and |
33 | And then the other one is the one that I got from the library by Luhmann . |
34 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |
35 | Such was the shock that I walked off the site in a state of mental turmoil after all the farewells at the season 's end . |
36 | At least , the bits that I recalled in the morning were about Anne , but behind the dreams , somewhere at the edges of my mind , an image of Poppy seemed to be lurking . |
37 | I will elaborate on the point that I made about the disruption that may be caused when additional tens of thousands of people are brought into the area , if the development at King 's Cross goes ahead . |
38 | I have nothing to add to the point that I made about the statement . |
39 | The woman from Ty Fach has found the pictures that I made on the rock , and the little woman with her has looked at them . |
40 | The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata . |
41 | I repeat a suggestion that I made to the Secretary of State at the time of the last atrocity in Northern Ireland . |
42 | The detail of the proposals on contributions was , of course , fully set out in the very full statement that I made to the House by way of a written answer at the same time as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's autumn statement on 6 November . |
43 | Indeed , it was watching television recently that I came to the conclusion that what the Lord 's Day Observance Society needs is a good PR man . |
44 | It was only after extensive reading through the writings of many authors that I came across the work which undoubtedly gave the author this particular inspiration . |
45 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
46 | They did try and imply that I went to the toilet for some sexual activity with the lead singer of Suede , which is a bit boring , and something that I 'd probably wish for more than think was nasty |
47 | It began to prey on my mind so much that I went to the casualty department of Charing Cross Hospital . |
48 | and er when I tell you that I went to the detective staff in nineteen twenty seven , then we started with our first mobile help . |
49 | It was during the period when Jean-Claude was working on the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ that I went through the scores he wrote in la Sologne throughout his childhood and into his twenties , and others he composed in Paris before Montaine 's death . |
50 | But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data . |
51 | Clichés and superlatives are rampant in the log that I kept on the trip . |
52 | It was some time after ten o'clock that I strolled through the gate on to the terrace . |
53 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |
54 | This is an interesting game that I discovered in the United States . |
55 | This is a constraint that I imposed on the DEVELOPMENT procedure . |
56 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
57 | ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’ |
58 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
59 | ‘ You know , Piper , I was so shit scared during the bombardment that I lay on the floor of that trench and prayed . |
60 | One supports that I lay in the street looking and waiting for a a man they mention tonight and that man is a well known killer of British soldiers . |