Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 2 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 3 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 4 | His conversations with me centred on Heidegger and death " . |
| 5 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
| 6 | Newman , what was the weather like when me met in Lübeck ? ’ |
| 7 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 8 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 9 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 10 | ‘ Arise ’ is a registered newspaper ; the publisher 's name is under the masthead ; you 'll find me listed as assistant editor . |
| 11 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 12 | One or two people at the other end were snoring and once someone quite close to me shouted in his sleep : |
| 13 | She kneaded me , all right , she wanted me transformed into puff pastry just like Daddy . |
| 14 | Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night . |
| 15 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 16 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 17 | Much as the work fascinated me , and fonder each day as I became of Edward , there was nevertheless a growing sense of frustration . |
| 18 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |
| 19 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 20 | ‘ In the end I became like the chaplain or the lady who did the hair or the manicurist. patients would ask , ‘ has the artist done you yet ? ’ |
| 21 | Stalling for his arrival I asked about the religion . |
| 22 | I asked about her daughter and her son and husband . |
| 23 | About four years ago , while negotiating a new house insurance , I asked about coverage of my wife 's knitting machines while in transit to and from evening classes . |
| 24 | I asked about murder . |
| 25 | I asked about his wife . |
| 26 | I asked about her work before she married . |
| 27 | After using it , I asked about its accuracy , as the readings bore no resemblance to that of the chemical test kit . |
| 28 | He said , ‘ Well , I asked about your life . |
| 29 | I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’ |
| 30 | I asked about 20 people emerging from the polling station . |