Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [art] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volunteer Eileen said : ‘ For half a second I thought it was a hoax but as he began to name the four streets I took him seriously . ’ |
| 2 | For half the trip I sat on the floor of the plane , holding the boy 's hand , watching the drip . |
| 3 | For half an hour I thought that was the end of our career . |
| 4 | After skulking around for half an hour I spotted a kestrel in a tree nearby . |
| 5 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 6 | After all the moving I think he wants to make this his last club . ’ |
| 7 | I mean , after all the shit I gave them they 've really stood by me and me girlfriend as well . |
| 8 | ‘ How could you let me down like this after all the effort I 've made ? |
| 9 | And he hit back , saying : ‘ Maybe the British Athletic Federation should have shown me a bit of respect and credit after all the effort I 've put in for them this year . |
| 10 | ‘ For such a friend I had , though after all |
| 11 | Out of such a sequence I began to put my thoughts into similar order . |
| 12 | ‘ Despite all the distress I would still go on , ’ she said . |
| 13 | At the end of this test I can find no failings in the manufacture or materials of the Veta V. Despite all the use I 've made of them they are as good as new . |
| 14 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 15 | Back with Miss Maine I was shown what was thought to be the trickiest of all the work I must do . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 17 | I was thinking of all the work I needed to do on Masquerade ; all the painstaking hours of sawing and planing and caulking and rigging . |
| 18 | Unfortunately with got to get some of those people who do n't want to come and it 's all about bums on seats it 's the old old saying bums on seats we 've got to get an answer how we do n't get to these here at the moment in the audience whether they are people who want to get bums on seats or how they know how to do it perhaps they should have a meeting like this every month I 've never seen so many of . |
| 19 | Throughout all the time I knew him , he had no other interest in life that even vaguely approached the study of taxation . ’ |
| 20 | I know lots of people ca n't understand that , one of which is my accountant , but I feel I must put something back , it 's the only way I can feel comfortable about all the money I 've made . ’ |
| 21 | I hope the neighbours did n't complain about all the racket I made . ’ |
| 22 | Personally I liked it , but felt it was not worth all the publicity I had helped create for it . |
| 23 | During all the time I had played golf I had not gone into any competitions and I had not got my handicap . |
| 24 | This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her . |
| 25 | The money ca n't make up for all the misery I went through . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 27 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 28 | Then I took off my little gold earrings and felt in the folds of my dress for all the money I 'd saved or stolen from my brother 's pockets over the years , and placed both the money and earrings in the palm of her hand , forcing her fingers shut around them . |
| 29 | I wrote to that older brother of yours , ‘ My capabilities are of little matter now ’ , but I suppose I might be as well off writing to myself for all the answer I 'm likely to get . ’ |
| 30 | You can chuck me in the river , if you like , for all the good I am to meself . |