Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] i [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were n't for the bit I earn I daresay me and my bairns would be in Dudley House an' all . |
| 2 | Not even being allowed to come and see you — if it had n't been for the Suvarovs I think I 'd have gone mad . ’ |
| 3 | So for the moment I think I 'll just stay possessed . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I asked for it , ’ Flavia said , ‘ the teasing and all , after the way I pretended I could get you a taxi . ’ |
| 5 | After the war I vowed I would never wear a white tie again , and never have , I dislike it so much ; so , having been informed that most of those below the salt would be wearing black ties anyway , I put on my Kennedy tartan smoking jacket with green velvet facings which I had recently had made and of which I was sure that Sir Walter , who often wore a plaid , would have approved . |
| 6 | After a while I thought I would help them along with some cellulite massage cream . |
| 7 | After a while I thought I 'd go into the orchard and practise some chip shots so I went to get my nine iron . |
| 8 | ‘ After a while I felt I knew what they were going to say . |
| 9 | And I would also point out that we are not proposing excessive development , in one of the papers I 've I 've put round , and I repeat the point I made it earlier . |
| 10 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 11 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 12 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
| 13 | I was then granted unconditional bail , in spite of the fact that the magistrates knew all about the cocaine , which was one of the reasons I thought I 'd never get a sentence . |
| 14 | " When I came out of the office I think I said something casually about old Mr. Lorrimer not having to go into hospital after all . |
| 15 | At the top of the stairs I thought I was going to be sick and returned stiffly to the bathroom . |
| 16 | Above the sad , complaining sounds of the wind I thought I heard a far-off cry . |
| 17 | I never bothered much about Allie , and most of the time I forgot I even had a brother . |
| 18 | In my rejection of the image I saw I was making a statement , the apparent text of which read , ‘ I do n't want to look like ( be ) that . ’ |
| 19 | With the enthusiasm of a boy I thought I had stumbled across one of the great masterpieces of English writing . |
| 20 | For a fraction of an instant I thought I had ceased to exist myself . |
| 21 | We went into my room at last , with our arms round each other , and in the doorway I stopped dead because I 'd forgotten what Toby had said about John and for a second I thought I was in the wrong room . |
| 22 | My Adam 's apple swells in my throat , and for a second I think I 'm going to join her in tears . |
| 23 | I 'm I 'm stuck for a word I 've I 've asked Angela , I ca n't explain to her what I mean it 's awful when you , when you got a word at the back of your mind it 's one of those words where ki , a kid ham anybody , any person can er , realise that something needs doing and do it without being told to do it . |
| 24 | For a while I felt I was in heaven , eating and drinking in the warm , pretty room , with kind Miss Temple and Helen . |
| 25 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 26 | For a moment I thought I had gone too far . |
| 27 | For a moment I thought I was with Alan Bennett . |
| 28 | Just for a moment I thought I saw a flicker of emotion in her eyes , but it was probably a trick of the light . |
| 29 | I can hear Andy 's muffled shouting ; for a moment I think I 've lost them and run past them somehow ; then I see them , almost straight ahead . |
| 30 | For a moment I think I am dreaming . |