Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] i [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 2 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 3 | Of course I refused with much indignation , and he grew very angry . |
| 4 | From what I 've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire . |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't understand the kind of love I have for this great country we live in . |
| 6 | As point of order I believe as this is a proposal of an amendment of the city board city board is the city board chair 's right of reply . |
| 7 | In the course of time I moved into other , larger rooms ; the last had a splendid view of Windsor Castle . |
| 8 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 9 | It will be noticed that the dates of buildings covered in Volume I overlap with those in Volume 2 . |
| 10 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 11 | In fact I know about one occasion when it was robbed , though they 've mostly hushed it up . |
| 12 | The the question was clear yes and er I in fact I agonized over that very question myself when I was trying to put these figures together . |
| 13 | I wish I could afford to stay at home — in fact I did for two years . |
| 14 | … In fact I have on one occasion in my life dreamt of a Pan-Indonesia which will include not only Malaya and Papua [ ie. Australian New Guinea ] but also the Philippines . ’ |
| 15 | Ballymena 's stay in Section I ended after five years when Bangor landed a double victory last week-end and they 'll merely be going through the motions at Ballygomartin Road against Woodvale . |
| 16 | ‘ On the nights I 'm on duty I work from seven-thirty to nine-thirty . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
| 20 | ‘ At night I hunt on four feet , ’ was the boy 's surprising reply . |
| 21 | On trying to contact Mr by phone I have on many occasions I was put off to say he was n't available I have also come to the foyer at the bottom asked to see Mr after twenty minutes wait and nobody turned up I decided to retire . |