Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 2 | Now I 've got that off my chest I feel much better . |
| 3 | Through my job I learnt more about their mentality , their way of life , culture and traditions . |
| 4 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 6 | In any event for my part I do not think that such a limitation exists . |
| 7 | But for my part I do not think that this is a complete analysis . |
| 8 | Let me assure you , for it 's all part of the legend , at the miracle of my birth I came forth when summoned by my father . |
| 9 | Like many youngsters of my generation I started out by breeding sticklebacks . |
| 10 | ‘ For the loss of my watch I did n't exactly come up trumps in the breakfast lottery . |
| 11 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 12 | Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far . |
| 13 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 14 | In all the days of my life I 've never seen such a rebellion against God 's will — nor against his appointed ministers . |
| 15 | When I was ill and was told I would have to go on a diet for the rest of my life I felt totally deprived that I was n't going to be able to eat junk food any more . |
| 16 | What was going to become of my life I did n't know ; but lying there that day by the sea it did n't seem to matter much . |
| 17 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 18 | For a man of my age I have n't been to many funerals , the result of belonging to a much reduced family and having a limited acquaintance . |
| 19 | At the end of my stay I felt almost at home in the country and the language . |
| 20 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 21 | No i er I do n't know people did n't go out of their depth I do n't think , they , it was half a crown or five bob and , and they used to pay , maybe pay it back in bits and bobs . |
| 22 | Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ? |
| 23 | And already he has shown some most interesting behavior , apart from the signs of his intelligence I have already described for you . |
| 24 | You know everyone was walking like my hair I did n't know where I was everything that people said would like just echo in my head . |
| 25 | ( And believe me , with my parentage I know whereof I speak , except in my mother 's case marriage did n't come into it . |
| 26 | You know and , as I say with my partner I have n't mentioned it yet , this business about cover |
| 27 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 28 | That applies as much to hon. Members opposite , to whose arguments for improving the system under their regime I look forward , as to other hon. Members with their proposals about what should be done about it . |
| 29 | Just as an exclamation and Evie folk would take it into their conversation I think even yet the older ones of them . |
| 30 | But even with her help I do n't concentrate properly in class , I just dream away the time , and then I ca n't answer the teacher 's questions . ’ |