Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , yes , I know that , O.K. , I said , you 're their mother , and you decided against their father for reasons I take to be desolate , but would n't some Asian studies in St. James 's Square at the Institute of International Affairs be less perilous until they are both over , say , four ? |
| 2 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 3 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 4 | In my view , for reasons I have set forth at length elsewhere , I believe that the philosophy of animal rights is the right philosophy . |
| 5 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 6 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 7 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 8 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
| 9 | Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull . |
| 10 | Marlowe was charming , witty , and very , very funny , but there was something about Millet I did n't like . ) |
| 11 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 12 | For hours I walked up and down in my flat . |
| 13 | He used to play for Hull I think did n't he ? |
| 14 | In an earlier article for Link I said that is a fun place to work . |
| 15 | Get them out for Easter I mean white lines up the seams |
| 16 | Returning through Brotton I looked across the valley and wondered why a huge Union Jack was flying half-mast on the top of the Zetland Hotel at Saltburn . |
| 17 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 18 | erm you know like for instance I mean erm I mean I suppose I feel British but I mean I do n't feel I have any very strong identification with with other British people because there are so many other people in the world speak English and erm often people from other countries who in many ways you identify with them more . |
| 19 | Erm but picking up on that erm for instance I mean er first first impressions are the most important . |
| 20 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 21 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 22 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 23 | I 've no idea yet , really what , I mean , you know , for instance I do n't know how much ratio staff to patients they need , therefore you ca n't really , you know , follow that up because you 've no idea what the costs themselves could be . |
| 24 | comparison of subjects within groups and between groups I thought that 's |
| 25 | During week-ends I have two part-time helpers and I also have a couple of part-time helpers from time to time . |
| 26 | Through Ezra I found what is known in these parts as a ‘ room and kitchen ’ flat . |
| 27 | we 'll be able to get them off Gary I think , yeah . |
| 28 | it 's between bit I do n't like |
| 29 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm getting the blame for crime I did n't commit . |