Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 2 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 3 | The U S rig count is down , both because of those rigs I told you about for tax reasons and also because there 's always a seasonal downturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 4 | D Dave to write a letter , saying for all projects I wish him to do |
| 5 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 6 | Now that is you know what do you do with these things I mean they 're a nuisance when it comes to making a presentation . |
| 7 | — ( in answer to How are you getting on with those jobs I asked you to do ? ) |
| 8 | A What about those things I asked you to bring ? |
| 9 | A What about those things I asked you to bring ? |
| 10 | To allow for those contingencies I think it right to allow the commercial rate for the twenty eight hours per week in inverted commas , parental care , rather than a discounted rate . |
| 11 | Well they 're not new blimming , new pict though they 've decorated have n't they , they 've done one coat now , I look like Nora Batty with wrinkles in this tights I told her to phone me from Woking station but she 's probably er |
| 12 | In some ways I wish I had something to fall back on but I wanted to play guitar in a band , not waste time at university . ’ |
| 13 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 14 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 15 | ‘ In some ways I feel you are so lucky , Lavinia , to have kept Araminta by you all these years . ’ |
| 16 | In fact in some ways I feel I almost got more out of appraising Kevin and Bill than I did out of Alan appraising |
| 17 | But there will obviously be sort of an ongoing training and so on because I , I know that in some ways I think it 's been very mixed and I qu I put |
| 18 | In such circumstances I consider it quite unrealistic to expect the taxpayer to make its payments ‘ under protest . ’ |
| 19 | In such circumstances I consider it quite unrealistic to expect the taxpayer to make its payments ‘ under protest . ’ |
| 20 | In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing . |
| 21 | In these circumstances I think it clear , given the diversity of immunities and of the policies underlying them , that it is not enough to ask simply whether Parliament can have intended to abolish a long-standing right of silence . |
| 22 | In these circumstances I feel it is perfectly reasonable to ask for the full refund of £29.50 , not to mention compensation for all the vexation and trouble I have been caused . |
| 23 | With great doubt in these facts I felt I could not eat it ; either because it was an illusion or it perhaps was dangerous or poisonous in some way . |
| 24 | In all things I expect you to be a lady . |
| 25 | ‘ In all games I coach I never go in with the understanding that there is only one person for one position . |
| 26 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 27 | erm in many ways I think she is . |
| 28 | But in many ways I think I 'm okay . |
| 29 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 30 | I mean in most clubs I mean they come in , they have a game of cards |