Example sentences of "[det] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She could discourse at great length on the history of Europe , illustrating how little I knew on this vast subject ( having ducked out of history lessons at the age of thirteen ) .
2 I have already said how little I knew about cancer , and I now began to brush up on it .
3 ‘ Yes , I 'd agree with that , from what little I knew of her , ’ said Helen .
4 ‘ What little I know of Lavondyss has left me in no doubt of one thing : it is a place of snow , of ice , of winter , of an age past when the land was frozen .
5 " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . "
6 And she needs to be told what little I know about what 's going on here .
7 And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat .
8 One of the strangest things is how little I think of Sophie and Ben .
9 I only fill them in that I know for a fact .
10 ‘ About a dozen that I know of , ’ Josie said , ‘ and I think I know them all . ’
11 In any event , Miss Kyte — at least Theda , for that I know to be her real name — is not to lose by this .
12 After that I put in another fast lap and coasted from there on . ’
13 We had only brief glimpses of the parrot as it flew across gaps in the canopy , and with that I had to be content .
14 After that I went to bed ; I suppose it would be around midnight . ’
15 And then after that I went to a public school but er to those years er I just followed the pattern .
16 After that I went off music for a while .
17 After that I listened to my Walkman , and later talked to Ron .
18 A good example of that that I read about it was the naturalist who was making a study of snakes .
19 After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’
20 So is that I mean to what extent do you feel erm the ch the church generally has moved along the road that you 'd like to see it ?
21 Very , very easily vaporises it , but and then when I do that I get minus sixteen plus I minus the square root off one thousand , one hundred and fifty six , all over two , plus minus sixteen , plus or minus what 's the square root of one thousand one hundred and fifty six ?
22 No I suppose they had but er I No that I knew of .
23 After that I dropped to 5 , 7 and out , but he sailed on magisterially .
24 suet in it I think it 'll end up runny rather than with nothing inside of it and if you 've got unless you want one as large as that I thought to myself .
25 It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’
26 After that I forgot about seeing Tavett and did n't remember until I was leaving the building .
27 ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’
28 Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim .
29 And this causes me difficulties in that I have to either imagine what it was or come back again to see whatever the er item in question is .
30 Then shortly after that I moved to where because no one else who wanted to buy the old buildings , I purchased them from the firm of er in our own right , no ou , in my own right and I started my office there where I had warehouse space .
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