Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to play for Hull I think did n't he ? |
| 2 | " Do you know , Dida — that ceiling is the first part of Portugal I 've seen that is just as I imagined it . " |
| 3 | ‘ After the death of Sicelo I decided to meet with a lawyer and asked him to put down on record that I had taken part in a film . |
| 4 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 5 | The all the old photographs of Orkney I 've seen that one . |
| 6 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 7 | SINCE I joined the Company at the beginning of October I 've visited several locations and met most people at the Key Street office . |
| 8 | By sacrifice and submission and by the Grace of God I mean to become a truly serious person , fit to make a new beginning and become a Catholic and a proper wife to you . |
| 9 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |
| 10 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 11 | The pilots were not sorry to go ; Doug Whitney entered in his logbook of the flight out : ‘ The finest sight of Malta I 've seen … ’ which , he adds , no doubt expressed his feelings at the time . |
| 12 | If I 'm going to the South of France I want to stay there for awhile |
| 13 | I 've got like Elsie I 've got . |
| 14 | So ignore that , I mixed you up with Tom I do apologize . |
| 15 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
| 16 | ‘ But I am sad and disappointed in my 11 years with Newcastle I have found them players worth millions . ’ |
| 17 | After my talk with Marcia I had tramped along the trails listening to imaginary advice from a weave of voices , the same ones I had silently and joyfully addressed at Machu Picchu . |
| 18 | And er with Michael I 'd gone out in Richard 's and bought mys , ever such a full raincoat when it was in fashion . |
| 19 | Could you write down on that that I 've , in brackets that for Ron I 've got tin of Liquorice Allsorts . |
| 20 | As an adult in Panama I have stepped aside and contemplated the New World equivalent of the driver ants that I had feared as a child in Africa , flowing by me like a crackling river , and I can testify to the strangeness and wonder . |
| 21 | In Victoria I have met the girl of my dreams . ’ |
| 22 | We have the example in Harlow I 've forgot , how many councils are there in Harlow , thirty six , thirty eight something ? |
| 23 | Before returning from England I had arranged the date when he would join the Department . |
| 24 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 25 | While Elizabeth was in Athens I had given her a proof copy . |
| 26 | Since I 've been over in England I 've bought a lot of clothes that I 'd probably never even consider wearing in Australia . |
| 27 | What I ca n't now work out is how as a university student in England I managed to get tickets for Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at those first Easter Festivals . |
| 28 | I remembered how in England I had pitied them all tucked away in oblivion : Feathers , the first man of my course to go missing ; Johnny Soames whose aircraft I had watched skidding away from the formation on one of the early daylight raids over northern France . |
| 29 | That 's the garden in Summerleigh I keep telling you that ! |
| 30 | After the fiasco in Prague I began to wonder whether there was any point in my running in any more relay teams , began to think that it was just a waste of everyone 's time . |