Example sentences of "of [noun sg] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 2 | ‘ I was cold and wet by this time , but after a tour of inspection I found the house was deserted . |
| 3 | Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there . |
| 4 | Uhm , no , I er I 've sort of started off and I 've got so far down and er I love the drawing that Freda Rudman from Stanford-in-the-Vale has done of their village , and er and of course I like the Harwell entry , which is my own village , but there 's certainly some very nice entries in , some very good entries in . |
| 5 | Of course I got the ferry to Appin and a lift to the very pier south of the narrows of Loch Leven where JTR landed . |
| 6 | So er er after a bit you see he changed them round , he , he guessed somebody were and of course I got the job |
| 7 | Well of course I mean the the point there is |
| 8 | Of course I enjoyed the company at school because my childhood was a bit lonely . |
| 9 | ‘ I was saying , ’ Shannon strove to sound as dignified as it was possible to sound for someone who was blushing like a schoolgirl , ‘ that of course I admit the man 's gorgeous . |
| 10 | Er and of course I seen the present managers are , are th the one you know only just lives down the road here he 's recently retired . |
| 11 | Of course I know the vast majority — especially the New People — do n't care a damn about any of the arts . |
| 12 | Of course I share the hon. Gentleman 's sympathy in the case of Mr. Newell . |
| 13 | And of course I suppose the advantage of that is too that erm if you needed the money to pay the course fees to get on the |
| 14 | ‘ Of course I realize the papers are confidential — ’ |
| 15 | Of course I give the hon. Gentleman that assurance . |
| 16 | Of course I give the hon. Gentleman the pledge that we shall take up any of those cases , should he send the details to me . |
| 17 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 18 | Of course I appreciate the concerns expressed by the hon. Member for Londonderry , East on behalf of his constituents . |
| 19 | and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past |
| 20 | Financially it is a great asset for Tain , and with this sort of money I hope the council will take a serious look at the town 's lack of leisure provision , ’ he added . |
| 21 | With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board . |
| 22 | On the last day of term I met the President and dons to say goodbye . |
| 23 | Leaving the pretty village of Thwaite I climbed the green lane to Shunner and below the summit had overtaken " the Dog Man " . |
| 24 | In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious . |
| 25 | I slung my rifle over my shoulder and clutching the bottle of wine I crossed the bridge for the second time , heading east , turning to wave to the couple at the door of the café . |
| 26 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 27 | As Taff poured me a good measure of cider and handed me a boiled egg and a chunk of meat I described the situation at No. 4 . |
| 28 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 29 | Before it whisked out of sight I got the impression of a bloated grey body standing about hip-high to me on four thin legs . |
| 30 | When he was out of sight I pushed the curtains aside and ran downstairs . |