Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] i " in BNC.

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1 Reading the news for ITN means I sometimes work peculiar hours but I often have a weekday morning off , and that 's when I play golf .
2 Through Rugby Travel I get lots of invitations to schools and clubs — I did nine sessions in two days in Northern Ireland recently — and it 's a good opportunity to try out different moves .
3 I have n't written to you for ages have I ?
4 seen you for ages have I ?
5 I got out of bed , packed a suitcase , wrote a note for Richard saying I was leaving him , and walked to the station .
6 I have n't seen her for months have I .
7 For winter camouflage I have an additional item , a sleeveless quilted shooting jacket which slips on rather like a bullet-proof vest .
8 His smile was so elfin I was reminded of a troll and a performance of Peer Gynt I had seen at the Maddermarket in Norwich .
9 As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ .
10 What type of fuse do I want in it ?
11 After the death of Roger Hinks I wrote to Elizabeth :
12 I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy .
13 The reason I started writing tunes was because I could n't find tunes that set up the kind of guitar playing I wanted to do as an improviser .
14 Once I had sucked my third of a pint of milk dry I picked up my books and returned to the lecture theatre .
15 Er and I think also it should be helpful to go to er a tutor , an , an , an admissions tutor and say well you know , what , what sort of skills do I need to get ?
16 There was another couple of Chelsea fans I was singing about them all the fucking day were n't I ?
17 Personally , apropos of Wedding presents I often think that the deepdye polyester is not necessarily the best buy for newly weds when you come to think about it .
18 At dusk the H.50 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Mervyn Wingfield , signalled the Worcester 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Ian Maitland-Magill-Crichton , ‘ In the event of enemy attack I intend to remain on surface . ’
19 cup of tea have I ?
20 Figure 7 shows that treatment of HT-29 cells for 48 hours with DMJ ( 3 mM ) , an inhibitor of golgi mannosidase I , resulted in a decreased adhesion ( p≤0.001 ) of the pretreated cells to laminin ( 8 ( 2 ) % ) of adhesion of untreated controls ) , fibronectin ( 35 ( 6 ) % ) , and collagen type IV ( 39 ( 10 ) % ) .
21 In the course of this kind of research work I am describing , a social scientist is continually being pressed to examine his own imagos , his own inner world with its stored subjective experiences .
22 Not one word of thanks do I get from her or from Sunil or his wife …
23 I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do .
24 There 's a brisk word for the little people — waiters ( ‘ idiot ’ ) , cleaning ladies , young policemen , flower stall men ( ‘ what kind of mortgage do I need for those ? ’ ) ,
25 Got a lot of , lot of room have I ?
26 Then he fell silent , as if he was thinking of some way to turn this promise into a purpose , and he added , in the barest of trembled whispers , ‘ As I am an eagle of Wrath do I promise it .
27 I 'd arranged , then immediately forgotten ( not entirely out of lack of self-interest do I support AMNASS ) , for a young doctor and a film crew to come to my house to film myself and Jack being blood tested for a little-known disease called Tay-Sachs , in order to encourage people to be tested to see whether they were carriers .
28 What I mean by setting goals is asking yourself ‘ What sort of person do I want to be ? ’
29 I gain a sense of achievement knowing I can see a job through to the end . ’
30 I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence .
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