Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | An me tink of all de people |
| 2 | But I have discussed all your arrangements and I approve of them . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had a look round the boat , ’ he said very coolly , ‘ and I approve of her . |
| 4 | It 's a very good paper , and I approve of its line , which is important : so many of my friends work for papers they ca n't stand . ’ |
| 5 | I heard of the miracles of Saint Winifred , and the many pilgrims and rich gifts she has brought to Shrewsbury , and I dreamed of finding such a patroness to give new life to Ramsey . |
| 6 | I have n't been brave enough to write to a publication of any sort before , but it is one of my favourite pieces of music , and this is the greatest performance I 've ever heard ( and I mean of anything ) , so thanks for the opportunity . |
| 7 | One of the reasons why my partner and I disposed of our practice some years ago was the fact that the new legislation , particularly relating to investment business and the proposed audit regulations which were to come into force , was making practices less profitable , as it was impossible to pass all these extra costs on to the client . |
| 8 | This remains the standard today — and I know of no other country in the world , including the USA , that keeps its accident investigators at such a high standard of training and efficiency . |
| 9 | Altogether it is an exceptional object , and I know of nothing else quite like it within the range of binoculars . |
| 10 | ‘ I know of the Gruagach King 's plans and I know of the charlatan Fael-Inis . ’ |
| 11 | Britain has a fairly long winter , and I know of only a few very hardy souls who are willing to go gold prospecting during this season . |
| 12 | His picture of the democratic tyranny of Athenion , the Aristotelian who led the anti-Roman movement in Athens in 87 , is the most hostile image of a popular leader in Greek literature — and I know of few comparable portraits in other literatures ( fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |
| 13 | I appreciate the point that my hon. Friend is making and I know of his support for museums and galleries in York and in Yorkshire . |
| 14 | ‘ And I know of one Darlington school which is running a lottery to make ends meet . |
| 15 | And she said , no it was just that he 's talking of renting his house erm and I know of someone who wants to rent one . |
| 16 | They in turn got it from a hospital in Leeds , and I know of one other implementation in Sheffield of this particular system , so there may be two or three others that I do n't know about , perhaps four or five in this country , of this particular type . |
| 17 | I thought of Fringe and the Downs and wondered if I would ever ride in a race , and I thought of Ronnie Curzon and publishers and American rights and of Erica Upton 's reviews and it all seemed as distant as Ursa Major but not one whit as essential to my continued existence . |
| 18 | and I thought of a man who |
| 19 | I was very happy ; it was a personal best , and I thought of Clifford Mamba . |
| 20 | The shelves are full of wonderful food at this time of year and I thought of how I could binge and throw up all day long . |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 22 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 23 | and I thought of Sheila with her firstborn |
| 24 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 25 | And I thought of what Jim Collins said when I heard what happened over at Stonham . |
| 26 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 27 | Two days later in the Bay of Biscay we saw a whale blowing a jet of spray high in the air , and I thought of Moby Dick . |
| 28 | And I thought of the other man , the mysterious watcher . |
| 29 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 30 | And I thought of you . ’ |