Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
| 2 | Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night . |
| 3 | ‘ In the end I became like the chaplain or the lady who did the hair or the manicurist. patients would ask , ‘ has the artist done you yet ? ’ |
| 4 | Stalling for his arrival I asked about the religion . |
| 5 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 6 | I mean , ’ he stammered , ‘ when I asked about the funeral , you looked shocked and grieved . |
| 7 | I asked about the baby and she looked at me as if I should know . ’ |
| 8 | A young man wearing a yarmulka skullcap and sitting astride a roaring tractor wiped his brow with his arm when I asked for the location of Um Al-Farajh . |
| 9 | And they said so at the er at the district council , went up to district and I asked for the support of the district council and er probably John immediately said , you have the full support of the district council for it he says and I 'll ensure that you get support with the result I also received four posters direct from the Edinburgh District Council with John photograph on it and with the caption st stating every old age pensioner should be signing here . |
| 10 | And I asked for the Kommandant 's help to have him released . |
| 11 | Since the controller was n't busy I asked for the rest of the weather , and was told three at 800 , or 900 feet above the threshold of Runway 18 . |
| 12 | For Christmas and birthdays I asked for the red , hard-backed children 's classics published by Dean and Co. and sold in Woolworth 's : Treasure Island , The Children of the New Forest , Alice in Wonderland , What Katy Did , A Tale of Two Cities . |
| 13 | Then I asked for the inlays , two humbuckers , two volumes and a tone . |
| 14 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 15 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 16 | Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’ |
| 17 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 18 | I asked in the beginning . |
| 19 | Er I asked before the enquiry , at the pre-enquiry meeting , that I should have such er any additional representations before the start of the enquiry . |
| 20 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 21 | In 1969 , I applied for the post of Senior Lecturer at the new University of Lancaster , in the north of England ( about 240 miles north west of London ) . |
| 22 | It was a big disappointment to me that when I applied for the news editor 's job , I did n't get it . |
| 23 | A week later back in Vancouver , when Canada joined Britain in the war against Germany and Italy , I applied to the RCAF recruiting office for a commission , in view of my earlier flying experience . |
| 24 | Oh mind , it was quite light , it was n't and I saddled on the path and I did n't , I do n't take chances . |
| 25 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 26 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 27 | I skidded into the forecourt and ran behind a pump , gasping and belching and feeling my head pound . |
| 28 | I was wearing a helmet , but it was ripped off as I skidded across the road . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Ah 've come for mah van , Duncan , ’ I drawled from the garage doorway . |
| 30 | I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper . |