Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With my best caricature British accent I reduce him to a fit of stifled giggles . |
| 2 | When I have found my tension I write it on a adhesive label and stick this on the inside of the cone , catching the tail end of yarn to the label at the same time . |
| 3 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 4 | In winter I fill them with a rich and succulent mincemeat mixture . |
| 5 | At one moment I see it as a drawing of a duck , at the next as that of a rabbit . |
| 6 | At that moment I glimpsed myself in a shop window and was pleased with what I saw . |
| 7 | Indeed , the police treated us both with the greatest sympathy and consideration from the moment I rang them from a callbox on the Abingdon Road . |
| 8 | " Why are you not wearing the medal I sent you as a keepsake ? " |
| 9 | The other day I put it into a fondue made according to the Franche-Comté method . |
| 10 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 11 | I do n't do mine in microwave I do it in a saucepan what , put my |
| 12 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 13 | They 're usually purchased over the counter with no instructions , but last week I bought one in a plastic sleeve , on which the following instructions were printed : ‘ This voltage indicator is suitable for testing AC voltage from 100 volts up to a maximum of 500 volts against earth The metal part on top of the indicator must be touched to operate it , and the earthing position of the user largely determines whether it lights up or not . |
| 14 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |
| 15 | And yet , alighting in the sunshine from the trembling train I found myself in a space transfigured by the three stages of the passage through the underworld that is matinee cinema : the transition from day to night ; the day for night of the viewing ; the transition back to daylight . |
| 16 | I never understood why until one morning I saw her in a corner sobbing . |
| 17 | If there is if there are no er examples of er er dev individual examples of development pressure , as I say we have one apparently presented to us this morning I think one over a period er since nineteen eighty seven , it 's not a basis for a policy . |
| 18 | When there 's a possibility of frost I cover it with a polythene bin bag — an instant propagator . |
| 19 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 20 | This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile . |
| 21 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 22 | I agree with what you 're saying but when I 've done it before and involved the pupil in such a report I put it on a separate sheet , so that |
| 23 | In a way I knew it in a way I had |
| 24 | Her voice was thin and cold , the way I like it After a while she cooed and cursed me into peace . |
| 25 | At the time I accepted it as a marvellous background for the all-important hunting , though too young really to appreciate this privileged glimpse of Indian court life . |
| 26 | ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well . |
| 27 | ‘ The next time I take her for a walk , I 'm not going to let her out of my sight , ’ he said . |
| 28 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember now , but I still love it and continue to be amazed every time I see it in a catalogue for it seeds itself as freely as any common plantain . |
| 30 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |