Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , yes , I know that , O.K. , I said , you 're their mother , and you decided against their father for reasons I take to be desolate , but would n't some Asian studies in St. James 's Square at the Institute of International Affairs be less perilous until they are both over , say , four ? |
| 2 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 3 | In my view , for reasons I have set forth at length elsewhere , I believe that the philosophy of animal rights is the right philosophy . |
| 4 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 5 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 6 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
| 7 | He used to play for Hull I think did n't he ? |
| 8 | Get them out for Easter I mean white lines up the seams |
| 9 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 10 | erm you know like for instance I mean erm I mean I suppose I feel British but I mean I do n't feel I have any very strong identification with with other British people because there are so many other people in the world speak English and erm often people from other countries who in many ways you identify with them more . |
| 11 | Erm but picking up on that erm for instance I mean er first first impressions are the most important . |
| 12 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 13 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 14 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 15 | I 've no idea yet , really what , I mean , you know , for instance I do n't know how much ratio staff to patients they need , therefore you ca n't really , you know , follow that up because you 've no idea what the costs themselves could be . |
| 16 | During week-ends I have two part-time helpers and I also have a couple of part-time helpers from time to time . |
| 17 | we 'll be able to get them off Gary I think , yeah . |
| 18 | it 's between bit I do n't like |
| 19 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 20 | I should of gone through the book to find that , put some money on it because if she had Victoria as well , I thought about Victoria and er of course I did n't know about Eugene I do n't read , but it 's in the book |
| 21 | Well erm the creation of surplus for investment I suppose . |
| 22 | How people can drink it for pleasure I do n't know . |
| 23 | I 've already got one , I 'm not bothered about that , I mean for kids I think , I think it 's a good idea because well then they do n't lay on it |
| 24 | But some of Buckmaster 's requests for data I suspect emanate from Morgan … ’ |
| 25 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 26 | From the comments of Jimmy Armfield ( what does he know about football I hear you ask ) Deane looked completly out of place and completly uninterested . |
| 27 | What about for traders I mean , erm obviously you ca n't really c er why you ca n't comment on the fact that er how your father o o can you comment on how your father actually moved here in the first place . |
| 28 | Looking through Woodworker I have to say that many of the chairs are anything but comfortable ! |
| 29 | Awake , alive , for months I think of you |
| 30 | When I talk about positions and opportunities for pictures I do n't suggest that you can plan them all . |