Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride , and once she 'd stopped laughing about Simon she told me to head for the pub where I 'd dropped Clara . |
| 2 | See now what his power is , for the day when I sate down before Juballa I had no more than four loaves of bread , and now by God 's mercy I have won Valencia . |
| 3 | Smart Drive going in , the new Smart Drive p p presumably it will put my mouse driv my new mouse driver in for me for the day when I want one ? |
| 4 | Just in time , for the bed where I placed the case is flashing its warning negative/ positive , and I snatch the stitched handle , just in time , as it fades out . |
| 5 | All right , I knew the cockroach treatment was for the time when I made my centipede on a string crawl up Shirnette 's back . |
| 6 | And it 's , I 'm going to do things for the house like I want to make erm Chris has put back the rail over my windowsill . |
| 7 | Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey . |
| 8 | We wanted to g get one or two in during the holiday really I think |
| 9 | Years later during the war when I went to Central Flying School to get an instructors rating , he once more instructed me and this time got another gong — Air Force Cross — for conduct far and beyond the call of duty , trying a second time to teach me to fly ( or so my mentors claim ) . |
| 10 | I watch the two blokes through the window then I carry on walking . |
| 11 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 12 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 13 | I decided I 'd have to tell you how I felt after the wedding when I thought you might be feeling more moved to accept advances from a Bluebeard . |
| 14 | work when I was fifteen , and I was away then for a while and then after the war when I come back I was working at at Cruisbruk . |
| 15 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 16 | I principally in Harlow who the generous generosity of forsightness of the Council etc I hope these facts are publicised and perhaps shame these people supporting er you know this theatre . |
| 17 | This is unbelievable , I thought , I 'm locked out of the country where I live , and they worry about litter . |
| 18 | For example , my understanding of the appearance of the landscape where I live on the Malvern Hills is increased by the knowledge that , ‘ The water table appears as a regular springline at about 600 feet above sea level , corresponding to the limit of cultivation and of historic settlement ’ . |
| 19 | I took a dose of the drug whenever I wanted to forget my old , quiet , serious self for a time . |
| 20 | He was writing ‘ in anticipation of the day when I go to join the revered Karl Marx and other revolutionary elders ’ : ‘ Our country will have the singular honour of being a small nation whose heroic struggle has defeated two big imperialists , the French and the Americans . ’ |
| 21 | And that 's all now so Val said she said I said to Cheryl now do n't you go and take Mervy away cos me and Ken certainly are n't gon na go and sit sit with erm the 's all dinner time so she said what they 're gon na do , they 're going out for the meal and everything and then they 're Ken are gon na go to Cheryl 's for the rest of the day So I said so that 's upset your plans then Val she said is n't it just ! |
| 22 | Right well let's er let me get this out of the way so I do n't hand back , that 's all yours to take away all right ? |
| 23 | We 're two thirds of the way along I thought , Sheila , I said , I 'm heading for the wrong bridge . |
| 24 | The perspective of the dream must have shifted several times , for I saw her once as if from above , moving through a kind of square , or crossing place , and then again from the fixed point of the dream where I stood watching her , left forefront . |
| 25 | What 's more , he 's on the board of the university where I teach . |
| 26 | So now here I am — Mrs Tamm wo n't leave her desk — not heading back to my own room and my labours on the great Assessment , but in the back parts of the building where I have never been before , picking my way blindly along the twisting ad hoc corridors , up and down odd arbitrary stairs , in the faint hope of ( seeing also ) . |
| 27 | I had to run to the end of the course with a hoop on my head then put the ring on a pole , then on the way back I had to arrange the bean bags in the right colour hoops , then get in an old potato bag and jump to the middle of the course then I had to skip to the end . |
| 28 | Are n't any of those in middle of the night like I use to . |
| 29 | It was in a field at the far end of the village where I live , just across from the playing field and cricket ground . |
| 30 | ‘ In my lunch hour I run a three and a half mile circuit of the village where I work . |