Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | And I would also point out that we are not proposing excessive development , in one of the papers I 've I 've put round , and I repeat the point I made it earlier . |
2 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |
3 | On Top Of The Pops I told her I was in love with her — and she laughed like a drain . |
4 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
5 | This was one of the one of the things I asked him was n't it ? |
6 | Be before you were chosen by whatever process a number of us was asked to comment and one of the things I felt it important to say was that the URC plays a very important role both in being a bridge between all these nations but also serving a particular reform tradition within Wales . |
7 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
8 | ‘ One of the things I like you for , ’ the young man said , ‘ is that there is no pretence about you . |
9 | ‘ And now , ’ said the Superintendent carefully , ‘ I 'd like you to get out your notebook , and make a list of the things I want you to do . |
10 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
11 | Now one of the things I think we need to do , And I I I put it in there and it 's pa it 's part of my appraisal system , is to do some work on actually entitlements to training . |
12 | Only for a bloke actually it 's pretty easy , but for some of the girls I mean they sometimes has to false herself . |
13 | If that 's one of the ones I think it is where it 's like , feels like velvet , but there 's some that |
14 | In fact it 's one of the reasons I brought you here . ’ |
15 | I was then granted unconditional bail , in spite of the fact that the magistrates knew all about the cocaine , which was one of the reasons I thought I 'd never get a sentence . |
16 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
17 | ‘ One of the reasons I do it , ’ he explains ‘ is because my wife and I can spend time alone together away from the family , feel young again ( they 're both in their early 40's ) , and have adventures . ’ |
18 | He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . " |
19 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
20 | At the top of the stairs I thought I was going to be sick and returned stiffly to the bathroom . |
21 | These are some of the points I feel we need to target on and work on . |