Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know it sounds mad but I suddenly had an image of them doing it on the carpet in the office like a couple of dogs . ’ |
| 2 | So I went in , I just had an egg on toast really nice . |
| 3 | Can I just make an announcement about the videos . |
| 4 | Chairman before before we do that could I just make an observation on |
| 5 | I already have an estimate from Woodlands Incorporated and it seemed satisfactory to me . " |
| 6 | At school , I once had an argument with a boy from another form and we decided to meet in the break to settle it with our fists . |
| 7 | As Granpa Charlie and I always had an apple for breakfast , the arrangement sorted out our own needs and also gave me the chance to sample what we were selling to the customers . |
| 8 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 9 | But she said : ‘ I still get an allowance from my Mom . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But what you have to understand is that I am a racer and I feel I still have an opportunity of winning the World Championship . |
| 11 | ‘ I still have an apartment in Chelsea , ’ said Laing . |
| 12 | I still have an abundance of energy that leaves my contemporaries standing . |
| 13 | At the first personal growth workshop I ever attended , I still recall an exercise in which we had to write down our faults and weaknesses , what we disliked about ourselves . |
| 14 | Yes I want to go in , oh when I come round I need a contract signed I also need an order with this wording on it . |
| 15 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 16 | The prize of five hundred pounds helped me start my business and as well as meeting the Prince I now send an outfit to the young princes every year . |
| 17 | I originally saw an advert in the paper asking for volunteers for the hospital radio station . |
| 18 | I immediately saw an increase in the size of my mushroom polyps compared to their pre-crisis dimensions ; obviously the low concentration of phosphate in my water ( which is otherwise good , with zero nitrate ) had been preventing them from fully expanding . |
| 19 | I even made an appearance at a big Salvation Army event in Sheffield one weekend . |
| 20 | They were both Waafs on the staff at Group , and when I tentatively expressed an interest in spiritualism , they fastened onto me like leeches . |
| 21 | I sometimes start an investigation by doing a bit of ‘ working-out ’ on the board and using intentionally ‘ messy ’ techniques to illustrate how useful they can be , always emphasising that they will , at some stage , have to look back at their work to write it up neatly in some form or other . |
| 22 | I therefore proposed an account of law , ‘ normative positivism ’ , which I take to synthesize salient features of positivism and natural law thinking and which seems to me wholly to fit the nature of criminal law . |
| 23 | I never got an answer to my question , a reasonable enough one I maintained , what was magnetism ? |
| 24 | I never received an answer from Lederle . |
| 25 | Some of my father 's gems will help explain : ‘ I never failed an exam in my life ’ … |
| 26 | ‘ I never had an affair with Marissa ! ’ he protested . |
| 27 | ‘ After eight months , I recently won an admission from the BMA that our proposals in the White Paper would not and could not cause any doctor to have to refuse any patient medicines which that patient would need . |