Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
2 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
3 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
4 | Although I tease it with a tender rage |
5 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
6 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
7 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
8 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
9 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
10 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
11 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
12 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
13 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
14 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
15 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
16 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
17 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
18 | Now that I seek myself in a serpent |
19 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |
20 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
21 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
22 | I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’ |
23 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
24 | I try to justify it in terms of training the intellect to think in an abstract and critical way , so I regard it as a general education . |
25 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
26 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
27 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
28 | South Gully looks good so I excuse myself past a team on the first pitch who are finding the thin , bubbled ice formation awkward . |
29 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
30 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |