Example sentences of "to [noun sg] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang Sorrel 's flat from Sergeant Purvis 's desk , and as he was out to lunch I sat on it and rearranged his pencils in a petty and thoroughly satisfying bit of vandalism . |
| 2 | Before I go to sleep I wonder about whether I should have said anything to him about Mr Archer and his phone calls and Ares . |
| 3 | In bed before I went to sleep I fantasized about London and what I 'd do there when the city belonged to me . |
| 4 | Complexes of actinomycin with a radiolabelled DNA fragment ( tyr T ) were dissociated by addition of a large excess of unlabelled calf thymus DNA and the mixture subjected to DNase I footprinting at subsequent intervals . |
| 5 | Well when I started to school I went to , back to school er I was eleven or er ten or eleven then , and I went to Field Road School that er what er Thomas 's , is it , was it school ? |
| 6 | On my way back to Sunset I stopped at the press trailer . |
| 7 | From time to time I took in little details of his face : his small , neat ears round which the moonlight-blond locks curled ; the light golden stubble round his laughing mouth ; the rather dry , sensuous yet slightly cruel lips ; the perfect column of the neck and throat emerging from his open shirt , unbuttoned to give me — was it deliberate ? — a shadowy glimpse of a dark nipple in a hairless chest , the beautifully smooth breast of an ancient god . |
| 8 | FROM time to time I read about the Turin shroud . |
| 9 | From time to time I read about the views of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras , ( Mr. Dobson ) but I was also interested to read over my cornflakes on Saturday morning the Labour party briefing to the effect that we were not to take the hon. Gentleman too seriously . |
| 10 | Wandering from house to house I asked for directions to the ruins of the palace . |