Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 2 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 3 | Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull . |
| 4 | Marlowe was charming , witty , and very , very funny , but there was something about Millet I did n't like . ) |
| 5 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 6 | For hours I walked up and down in my flat . |
| 7 | In an earlier article for Link I said that is a fun place to work . |
| 8 | Returning through Brotton I looked across the valley and wondered why a huge Union Jack was flying half-mast on the top of the Zetland Hotel at Saltburn . |
| 9 | comparison of subjects within groups and between groups I thought that 's |
| 10 | Through Ezra I found what is known in these parts as a ‘ room and kitchen ’ flat . |
| 11 | I 'm getting the blame for crime I did n't commit . |
| 12 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 13 | for practice I supposed . |
| 14 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 15 | I had n't seen you for months I did n't know you for er |
| 16 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 17 | ‘ When I played for Transvaal I found my role very different to that employed for either club or country . |
| 18 | After tea I went out and saw Ryan . |
| 19 | After lunch I recrossed the road to the newsagents , and took my place at the wailing wall of the pornography section . |
| 20 | After lunch I went into town , taking Gravel my bike and some money . |
| 21 | After lunch I went for a walk in the little market town , now being hardened to being a subject of great curiosity , with people gaping at the sides of the road , and children following us up and down the street . |
| 22 | After lunch I sat in the car and listened to a Bush press conference . |
| 23 | ‘ Every morning , ’ he writes , ‘ I left my mother 's place and went straight to Brion 's , we had a cup of tea and a puff and days after days I left for home at five … |
| 24 | ‘ After Munich I thought we 'd saved the day . |
| 25 | And I want to see more of France — I had a ball there — but after Paris I went to Spain and got really ill . |
| 26 | Day after day I watched the three people . |
| 27 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 28 | After Africa I felt I could deal with it . ’ |
| 29 | Night after night I sat on the sofa looking out to sea , the way Francis had . |
| 30 | When I looked after Father I had all the modern equipment I needed . |