Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 32 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 33 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 34 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 35 | In one case I know of , two friends resolved to escape because they had heard their parents ‘ scheming ’ of such marriages in the near future . |
| 36 | Tricia sat between Melanie and me , which made me change gear ever so carefully in case I brushed against her ample thigh , and Melanie shouted instructions around her . |
| 37 | In this case I refer to the DG issues of Domingo ‘ Arias and Tangos ’ and the Wunderlich five-CD collection . |
| 38 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 39 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 40 | In this case I begin with two on a 16 , and if necessary go down to one caster on an 18 . |
| 41 | In the present case I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. and Butler-Sloss L.J . |
| 42 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 43 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 44 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 45 | Well , it 's a , it 's a , it 's a case I suppose of , of science revealing the obvious , but er , of , of course it 's a fact today , we know why it 's a fact . |
| 46 | I put on an accent I slip into something more comfortable I turn |
| 47 | erm , only that sort of rules , probably a big advantage I think of staying in er sixth form is that erm you know the staff , you know the system and it and they know you , erm if you go |
| 48 | It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots |
| 49 | Chairman I have to but I moved conservative resolution and I am now the debate problem . |
| 50 | So Chairman I offer in lieu of three point one , the formal recommendation an alternative recommendation which is as follows , it is recommended that further consultation take place with Norfolk County Council and Breckland District Council at |
| 51 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 52 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 53 | Several schools coaches I spoke to pointed out that , by the end of the season of the new law , most of the boys had worked out ways and means of blocking the ball . |
| 54 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 55 | Right , MyMouse is remmed out cos I do n't want I do n't erm I , I choose when I start , which mouse driver I start on one , one of the mouse port and one of the serial erm times . |
| 56 | A bus driver I spoke to in told me that the tinkers stayed down from . |
| 57 | The two , the two insurance policies I had of erm er the house were on |
| 58 | The blow I shrank from did not fall . |
| 59 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 60 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |