Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I have to go now or I shall be roped in for the sacrifice and I do n't like getting my hands dirty . |
| 2 | It is essentially a matter for the Government and I believe that they will be able to demonstrate that the Town and Country Planning ( Assessment of Environmental Effects ) |
| 3 | We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week . |
| 4 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 5 | I went for the day and I saw Christopher Reed superman . |
| 6 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 7 | ‘ John goes for the foliage and I buy flowers ’ said Claudia , who likes bargains and does n't mind a few surprises . |
| 8 | I shall vote for the amendment and I hope and expect that my honourable friends will do likewise . ' |
| 9 | ‘ But I think I have done what is best for the side and I hope Ashley can score sufficient runs to get back again . ’ |
| 10 | She told The Universe , the Catholic weekly : ‘ I am praying for the family and I feel very sorry for them . |
| 11 | The result , the result of such claims will be a rush to restore differentials and a general inflation in Local Authorities , with no increase in value of services for the community and I ask that the Labour Party should distance itself from this very mis-guided proposal for national wage proposals , minimum national wage proposals . |
| 12 | ‘ Now dear , ’ said Mum ‘ Your brother asked for the salt and I suggest that it might be polite if you were to do what he asked . ’ |
| 13 | And I find that my father , who was old too , at the time substituted for the father and I have an excellent relationship with my son ! |
| 14 | The Bill is the right Bill for the job and I commend it to the House . |
| 15 | So I boiled them in pan for the dog and I put some taters in and a few peas and carrots sort of thing and some Oxos and made him a r a right good dinner . |
| 16 | I 'd just like to thank the fellow colleagues of my team for the effort and I regard er a very worthwhile and creditable performance . |
| 17 | On 1 November , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment and I announced our decision — to which the hon. Member for Caerphilly referred — to exclude the area of the inland bay as defined in the Bill from further consideration as part of the area proposed as a special protection area . |
| 18 | She took them in during the day and I went off to Bartle 's — that 's the engineering factory in Brick Lane . |
| 19 | Erm , I think I will give up being Chair this time , I 've done it too long , too long , and I 've had it John as Co-Chair during the year and I hope that he 'll be able to carry on as , as Chair Person , I think really I 've done it , done it for long enough erm , and we 'll have to ask , we hope , we hope the Treasurer just taken over will carry on |
| 20 | I am confident of our ability to meet any challenge and opportunity we meet during the year and I wish you all every success . |
| 21 | I appreciated the very great honour of being asked — Coronation opera and all that — but I knew that my voice had been punished mercilessly during the war and I had , indeed , decided to retire from the opera stage . |
| 22 | I mean that er shortly after it Molly was married at er Aye just a just before the war er broke out Molly was married , and Cathy got married during the war and I got ma er no The three of us got married just round about the same time you know . |
| 23 | ‘ There were some meetings that were during the week and I enjoyed going away , ’ he remembered . |
| 24 | I propose to think over the situation of the Government generally during the week-end and I have not yet made any definite decisions as to possible changes of Ministers . |
| 25 | As the Minister and I agree that the fatal weakness of the MacSharry proposals is that they will increase the cost of the common agricultural policy , thus breaching the budgetary limit , will the Minister give the House a guarantee today that the Government will use their right of veto on any proposals to breach the budgetary limit ? |
| 26 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 27 | Of course Matt was regarded as the prize and I suppose I was flattered when he became serious with me — or seemed to . ’ |
| 28 | Ancient Egypt , rather than Ancient Rome , was used to fine effect by Agatha Christie in Death Comes as the End and I have even reviewed , most favourably , some years ago a novel in which the great Aristotle , no less , was the sleuth . |
| 29 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 30 | And she rang me this morning for , well er it was so comical cos Gemma had said to me yesterday you know what about the holiday and I said sure that does n't have to be paid till the end of the month and erm you sure before we go into this ? |