Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |
| 3 | On Top Of The Pops I told her I was in love with her — and she laughed like a drain . |
| 4 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 5 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 6 | This was one of the one of the things I asked him was n't it ? |
| 7 | Be before you were chosen by whatever process a number of us was asked to comment and one of the things I felt it important to say was that the URC plays a very important role both in being a bridge between all these nations but also serving a particular reform tradition within Wales . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
| 9 | ‘ One of the things I like you for , ’ the young man said , ‘ is that there is no pretence about you . |
| 10 | ‘ And now , ’ said the Superintendent carefully , ‘ I 'd like you to get out your notebook , and make a list of the things I want you to do . |
| 11 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 12 | Now one of the things I think we need to do , And I I I put it in there and it 's pa it 's part of my appraisal system , is to do some work on actually entitlements to training . |
| 13 | Only for a bloke actually it 's pretty easy , but for some of the girls I mean they sometimes has to false herself . |
| 14 | If that 's one of the ones I think it is where it 's like , feels like velvet , but there 's some that |
| 15 | One of the questions I asked myself was what could possibly have gone wrong ? |
| 16 | In fact it 's one of the reasons I brought you here . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 19 | I did and it was one of the reasons I lost my seat in the Dail . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps that 's one of the reasons I love my work . |
| 21 | You see , one of the reasons I mentioned his name last night was that he was n't in the room when I came back — the boardroom , you know , where the party was being held . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the reasons I do it , ’ he explains ‘ is because my wife and I can spend time alone together away from the family , feel young again ( they 're both in their early 40's ) , and have adventures . ’ |
| 23 | He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . " |
| 24 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 25 | And her face broke and she said , ‘ Oh Wyn , oh Wyn ’ , and he held her in his arms , and from where I crouched in the elbow of the stairs I saw his face and it was the face of the fox that Hywel killed , and the face of the stoat that he beat with a stick in the hen-yard , and the face of the dog that savaged the ewes . |
| 26 | At the top of the stairs I thought I was going to be sick and returned stiffly to the bathroom . |
| 27 | It was one of the goals I set myself ’ . |
| 28 | These are some of the points I feel we need to target on and work on . |