Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] i [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then you know I 'm not sure either whether of course I mean one would hope that erm the institute would have certain requirements about the erm practical period that you |
| 2 | But of course I said nothing — to retaliate would have been considered insufferably rude — and walked on , pretending not to have heard , while my aunt proceeded to pass similar , though less unflattering remarks on the physical appearance of my sisters . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … . |
| 4 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 5 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 6 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
| 7 | Of course there could be plenty of others I know nothing about . ’ |
| 8 | As we wandered about , we were treated with the kind of curiosity I imagine one reserves for a chance meeting with people from the planet Zarg . |
| 9 | It was a kind of lifestyle I knew nothing about , having always lived in South Kensington . |
| 10 | I understood that you might like me better if I had experience , if I did n't have opinions about things I knew nothing about . … ’ |
| 11 | Erm like erm for example I knew somebody who was educated at Rugby and during his time there he was abused enormously by the other kids . |
| 12 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 13 | Just say that 's what you set out to do , to stick with me in case I knew something , and that when the mission was accomplished , you brought him home . ’ |
| 14 | Now I cry every time I write to him and I dare n't go out in case I meet somebody else . |
| 15 | If it is n't in Mexico I believe someone will cure her . |
| 16 | ‘ As soon as I realised Princess Diana was in trouble I put everything to one side , ’ she says . |
| 17 | I swear before God I had nothing to do with them . ’ |
| 18 | In answer I did something I had not done in years . |
| 19 | I did n't know the surname of the people who 'd taken you , only your first name , Robbie , and so when you turned up in school I thought nothing of it . |
| 20 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 21 | I told them that at one we 'd be going away on another job cos we 'd got another job booked in , but in fact I reorganized everything so that in fact we could do it for them . |
| 22 | In fact I think one has to be like an athlete to get even that one , or two hours done every day . |
| 23 | I did n't strap it up or anything like that — in fact I did nothing with it . |
| 24 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 25 | However , before going to Budapest I had one more evangelical function to perform . |
| 26 | The first few years at school I learnt nothing — |
| 27 | I think history has done this , and by history I mean everything which has worked through history to produce that result — geography , climate , agriculture , economics . |
| 28 | By context I mean something wider than the co-text of any utterance : In ( 1 ) the implication is that the situation of utterance , which is extralinguistic , determines the potential meaning . |