Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clothes buying is hardly Yuri 's preferred foreign pastime , though : ‘ When I travel , I prefer to sneak off to look at cars and buy accessories for the ones I have at home — a Volvo , an Audi , a Volkswagen , a Japanese Micro bus — and my favourite , an old Chevrolet . |
| 2 | As for my own research , there are some areas of it in which quantification has not been used because in these areas it was not necessary or appropriate for the purpose I had in mind ( see for example the discussions in chapter 5 ) . |
| 3 | I suppose it is not impossible that , if I had needed to make application to the authorities to undertake a dash to and from London for the purpose I had in mind , the brother-in-law 's request might by some happy chance have ‘ married up ’ with my own application . |
| 4 | They would repay me for the dowry I wasted on you , but I have no wish to be reminded of you . |
| 5 | It was a paeon of praise for the comic I read at the time — a tuppenny coloured one ! |
| 6 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 7 | Deerhound and Saluki crosses are one popular arrival but these , in my view , are too big for the work I want from my lurcher . |
| 8 | ‘ For the moment I go to my office , and you — ? ’ |
| 9 | For the moment I cling to the idea that there are a relatively small number of cell-to-cell signals . |
| 10 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |
| 11 | I was always impressed by the quality of the students ' preparation for the lessons I observed on my weekly visits to them and by their willing capacity to learn by their mistakes . |
| 12 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 13 | I do n't know whether he 's responsible for the offer I had from Bernard Remington-Hart this morning . |
| 14 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 15 | I WOULD like to convey my many thanks and praise to all the helpers , workers , nurses and priests , and to my Bishop , for the joy I received through their care and kindness at Lourdes . |
| 16 | I am well known here for the checkings I make of the movement of ships . ’ |
| 17 | My qualifications for the job I leave to you . " |
| 18 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 19 | During the decade I worked in the National Health Service , I saw countless martyrs — and a good proportion of them were the staff . |
| 20 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 21 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 22 | During the time I spent at home I seem to have eaten nothing but apples and , if I am to be believed , an inordinate number of them . |
| 23 | As the work I do for Thee , and by Thee , |
| 24 | Before entering the alley between the walls I glanced into the garden . |
| 25 | There is also just possibly an analogy between the interruptions I described in ( ii ) and the unadopted state of the lane . |
| 26 | No chance to talk to Mum about the bike I dream of day and night ! |
| 27 | ‘ I was thinking about the day I went to your house to pick you up . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ About the man I hit on the head . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There 's nothing casual about the way I feel about you , Folly . |
| 30 | And I 'm sorry about the way I spoke to you before . |