Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 2 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 3 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 4 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 5 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 6 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 7 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 8 | ‘ For a couple of hours I feel like a man again , ’ said one . |
| 9 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 10 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 11 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 12 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 13 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 14 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 17 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’ |
| 19 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 20 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 22 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 23 | He was a employed by Dorrisons I think as a recovery bloke , you know |
| 24 | I used to love driving that around , it was that long , me sat behind the wheel I looked like a dot in that ! |
| 25 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 26 | I have always been very conscious of this because the last aircraft I flew as a regular airline pilot were the old Douglas DC-6 B and the Convair 340 . |
| 27 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 28 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 29 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 30 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |