Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 2 | In the end Frank and I met of our own volition . |
| 3 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 4 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 5 | I would n't finish my apprent and I came into our own firm and started with bicycles and motorcars . |
| 6 | ‘ I came of my own will , ’ said Harry abruptly . |
| 7 | I was bloody difficult because I came with my own agenda and I was n't going to have a whitewash . |
| 8 | Everything I did personally and everything I explored in my own life seemed part of this much wider political and social movement . |
| 9 | I played with her several times when she was in her 70s — and she trounced me . |
| 10 | I reverted to my own adaptation of that simplest of all codes of operation , the ‘ 0 ’ Group . |
| 11 | And it was shortly after that when I retreated to my own cabin and the comfort of a Freezobalm . |
| 12 | I developed in my own way , free from the pressures of fashion . |
| 13 | I worked to my own initiative and it |
| 14 | Mollie was n't asking a question , more making a statement , knowing there was nowhere else to eat until I settled in my own home . |
| 15 | The deliberation took two minutes and Fairbrother said : ‘ I felt in my own mind that I was in . |
| 16 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I saw with my own eyes . |
| 21 | It came to me that my mother was proud of her friendship with this high-spirited outcast , and I felt resentment as I thought of my own upbringing , of the fuss when my school reports were n't all that my mother would have wished , of the scene when once I had sworn . |
| 22 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 23 | I was wanted in Formula 1 , then I was n't , so I went about my own business , creating my own new future , then all of a sudden I 'm wanted again . |
| 24 | Regretfully I went into my own apartment . |
| 25 | I went into my own bedroom and sat on the bed for a few minutes . |
| 26 | While I acclimatised myself to the changes over forty years , I went into my own world , back even further than that first hospital . |
| 27 | I went into my own office and sat down , doodling around on the blotter . |
| 28 | Raschid who is here today was President and I attended with my own Table Chairman at that time David who not only encouraged me to attend my first A G M but encouraged me to get involved involved in ri in Round Table right from the very onset . |
| 29 | At a launch of a new diagnostic technique the Chief Executive of a hi-tech company in the medical field seeks your advice on two public relations programmes : I Aimed at his own company 's staff : 230 of them at two factories 65 miles apart and at an R and D facility with 38 senior staff . |
| 30 | I hissed through my own teeth at it and tugged the rubber tighter , then tighter still . |