Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] i " in BNC.
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1 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
2 | I wondered as I thought of secrets if I might find some release in telling Lili the thing that festered in my soul , and I asked her if she would listen . |
3 | Spending time there and in Biella , I have a good balance of values that I like personally . ’ |
4 | Well , my Lord the case is about the practice of solicitors and I 've pleaded upon the practice , that 's part of the statement . |
5 | A detailed report on our divisional activities is contained in the Review of Operations and I will therefore concentrate on a general review of some of the more important developments and issues affecting both the Group and industry . |
6 | Ken Clarke was my minister of roads and I remember him coming back on more than one occasion with steam coming out of his ears . |
7 | so I had a lot of contacts and I enjoyed it . |
8 | I shall add that to the list of discussions that I shall be having shortly with other assisting countries who are aiming to relieve the awful effects of the wars , wherever they may be occurring . |
9 | While Deutsche Bundespost Telekom views its joint venture with France Telecom , Eunetcom , as the ‘ foundation for our world activity , we think it is necessary to have a partner from the US and from the Pacific Basin , ’ said Dieter Gallist , a member of the board of management for Telekom at the Networked Economy Conference in Paris : ‘ We are in the middle of discussions so I wo n't say any more , however , ’ he added ; Gallist added later that Bundespost Telekom is also ‘ looking strongly in the direction of software alliances . ’ |
10 | She 's looking through this rack of suits so I go and give her a hand . |
11 | ‘ So if you can come up with a way of going down there , past the guards , up to the house , into a room or two , and being left alone for a couple of minutes while I secure the devices — OK , you 've got what you want . ’ |
12 | ‘ Give it another couple of minutes and I 'll show you . |
13 | There needs to be a long term education of cyclists and I sincerely apologise to those walkers who have had any bad experiences . |
14 | ‘ We had a fairly useful discussion and exchange of views and I think Mr. Pexton was interested to hear opinions from grassroots farmers , ’ he said . |
15 | Well a variety of views and I think the only generalization I can make about weddings is that you ca n't generalize about weddings , some people think they 're wonderful , some people are sceptical , people have done their own er variations on weddings . |
16 | That is the only case of the thousands of cases that I have raised with him to which he has said yes . |
17 | They have subject limited statutory duties in the insurance companies act , but the fact they 're subjected to duties in the same way that the underwriters , the underwriters are subject to duties does not make them regulators , but in any event even if we were wrong on that there is no exemption under article eighty five , one for regulators and , and your Lordship has seen a number of cases and I sha n't go back to them is fully subject to the competition rules whether as a regulator or not . |
18 | It was a couple of hours before I could get back to Eleanor Darcy . |
19 | Why do n't you go and have a sleep for a couple of hours while I keep an eye on Chris ? ’ |
20 | Sir David continues to ask me every couple of hours if I 've done it yet . ’ |
21 | I eat plenty of vegetables and I do n't like chocolate . ’ |
22 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
23 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
24 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
25 | I see 'd them sell them in the streets lots of times but I ai n't never tasted them like . ’ |
26 | a couple of times , you know , people were up my arse a couple of times and I retaliated a couple of times |
27 | We 've been in a couple of times and I said that I wanted a chaise you see ooh I got this erm one for Victorian one it 's very nice , and lovely warm you know , the legs anyway it was one one thousand three hundred you see , so I thought , oh I said well I did n't wan na |
28 | But also — ’ I flipped the keys a couple of times as I stood up — ‘ because I think he enjoyed doing it . ’ |
29 | Could I then come to the body of the report , rather than the East Grinstead by-pass , which I , I , I I agree is , is pertinent erm I was , I read this a couple of times because I was a bit confused about the rather if I may say so convoluted argument that was in it erm I think I understand the argument that the erm is that the Mid Sussex District Council have asked for advice and the recommendation is that advice . |
30 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |