Example sentences of "[noun] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 2 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 3 | And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it . |
| 4 | Erm we mentioned already today about A P A P I on the desktop called erm Open Client . |
| 5 | So we 're very committed to O D B C. It is one standard which we 're following , it is an alternative A P I for the desktop which is obviously strong because of the Microsoft relationship , erm but we will also foth follow other standards in terms of A P Is for the desktop as well . |
| 6 | ‘ My mum used to monster me for coming home so late . |
| 7 | I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! " |
| 8 | Alan me for me , mathematical but I accept what you 're saying that you mean numerical for most of that alphabetical as as opposed |
| 9 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 10 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 11 | Oh well , my goodness me in a carpet . |
| 12 | Carrie me across the threshold , darling ! |
| 13 | Er I 'll just talk erm just talk briefly about emergency access money , cos this wi this covers one point I in the next session . |
| 14 | When I returned from Libya via Egypt , just after the Munich crisis I at once got in touch with Eliot , and put my proposal before him . |
| 15 | Even so , I had been surprised when he agreed to back me on the amateur circuit for one year after I left the university . |
| 16 | Third , she claims to have authorisation from Mephistco to boot me off the assignment . |
| 17 | The only fing we 've got ta decide is , who 's gon na come wiv me on Sunday evenin' fer the pay out . |
| 18 | Could you advice me of any reputable wreckers who may have ouch a late model unit ? |
| 19 | He waited what seemed to him rather an excessive ti me for Catherine , but decided , charitably , that you could n't look as she did without pretty regular attention to the overall effect . |
| 20 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 21 | That was true , but it was also a ti me of shock , suspended animation . |
| 22 | Everyone around him had assumed that at the ti me of his wife 's death he must miss her very much and said what a wonderful person she was . |
| 23 | It would only be a matter of ti me before the pubs , the little grocer and the dry-cleaner 's were replaced by some establishment selling something on which an enormous mark-up could be obtained . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh no , not again , ’ remarks an attractive blonde whose car is stopped for the second ti me in a day . |
| 25 | It was a bulky volume to carry around and my RAF friends used to rib me about my " vest pocket edition " , but I had resolved to keep reading it in spare moments to remind me of my real life . |
| 26 | This is not the time to subject me to some kind of general knowledge quiz … or to make love to me , although heaven knows I 'd like you to . |
| 27 | Can I can I just raise a question er to r to clarify the point before I answer your question that I are am I are we to assume that in response to Mr , erm it 's on the record that there 's a er a request to add , clear expression of local preference I by local planning authorities ? |
| 28 | Then , bugger I down dead if she did n't get me . |
| 29 | That in and under the bread and wine , as Calvin put it , set apart from common use to this holy use to represent his body and blood , he feeds us with his very life I in you and you in me , I the vine and you the branches . |
| 30 | But for the moment , why not humour me with a little explanation ? ’ |