Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked about local amnesties , I was told : ’ It is for chief officers of police to consider whether offering opportunities for disposing of offensive weapons would be a worthwhile crime prevention initiative in their own force area . ’ |
| 2 | I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes I asked about these stories . |
| 4 | I asked for 15 rehearsals for the Benvenuto Cellini in Geneva ( in February ) and both the orchestra manager and the intendant at the house thought I was crazy . |
| 5 | I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre . |
| 6 | I asked for some children to work with me . |
| 7 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 8 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 9 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 10 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 11 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |
| 12 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 13 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 14 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 15 | Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years . |
| 16 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 17 | for a while I was in the Air Force and then I lived in various parts of the country . |
| 18 | I lived in different parts duck . |
| 19 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 20 | Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded . |
| 21 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 22 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 23 | ‘ If I failed in some aspects it was Tom Bradley who failed . |
| 24 | So I got about twenty records , ten packets of tea , Tropic of Cancer and On the Road , and the plays of Tennessee Williams , and off I went to live with Eva . |
| 25 | I got on first-name terms with the other managers-in-the-making . |
| 26 | I levelled at 800 feet and transmitted again : ‘ Pilot in the water , helicopter listing port ’ . |
| 27 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
| 28 | The Marxist book I reviewed with several others in The Criterion for October 1937 . |
| 29 | I tried at regular intervals throughout the night and first thing this morning . |
| 30 | Well I wan I tried for two days to talk about Lady Thatcher . |