Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 2 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 3 | I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway . |
| 4 | While the hairdressers I spoke to admitted the cult of the dominating hairdresser was strong in the last decade , they all feel it 's now on it 's way out . |
| 5 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 6 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 7 | Such reasons I dubbed above ‘ dependent reasons ’ . |
| 8 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 10 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 11 | I exercised all the patience I could muster , trying every trick I knew of to get a performance out of Monty . |
| 12 | The M and M I did n't like This trick I obtained from Paul Daniels , and my sister the Amazing Avril uses it in her children 's shows . |
| 13 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 14 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 15 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 16 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 17 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 18 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 19 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 20 | Tricia sat between Melanie and me , which made me change gear ever so carefully in case I brushed against her ample thigh , and Melanie shouted instructions around her . |
| 21 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 22 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 23 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 24 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 25 | It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots |
| 26 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 27 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 28 | Several schools coaches I spoke to pointed out that , by the end of the season of the new law , most of the boys had worked out ways and means of blocking the ball . |
| 29 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 30 | A bus driver I spoke to in told me that the tinkers stayed down from . |