Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I would like to share with you a burden for prayer as I feel it is only right that all Christians should know about anything that would deny us total freedom .
2 No I 'm charging for spice when I go in
3 You know I asked you to commit yourself , how much do you think it 's worth for me to do all this kind of work and he 's , you 're confused because you think I 'm actually talking about money and I take the weight off your shoulders by saying no it 's not actually money , it 's in the form of two or three names , people open minded like yourself , who I can sit down and discuss the whole situation with
4 In our marriage George worries about money and I worry about everything else .
5 Er yes current position er at the moment I 'm the licence training manager for brewery and I 've held that position for five and a half years .
6 erm , well I think it 's , do , erm I do n't know whether you understand what 's been asked doctor it cou it 's a question of costs , er normally where er matters erm are dealt with in chambers for in counsel appear then erm these counsel do n't get paid for the other side erm unless there is certificate for counsel as I understand it , were the , were the counsel appeared before the Judge erm they are entitled to their costs and this is er an appeal to the Judge , but er what I think Mr is saying is , in case he happens to be wrong in that he would like an order that er his fees should be proper fees of the defen of the plaintiffs on this appeal and er such as you could say seems to me that er , that is a , that would be proper
7 For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ .
8 When they rise to an equal level , like for instance if I have a choice between going to a woman doctor and a man doctor and they 're both on the GP list , I will choose the woman , because the woman has had to fight tooth and nail , probably , and work much harder , to get at an equal level with the man , so I would suspect that I 'm getting value for and quality there by going for the woman .
9 Erm for instance if I feel I 've got to give Philip something er a tin of sweets is acceptable to both to both sexes is n't it ?
10 Oh I was on about sewing cos I said I 'd let them , you know , they were all doing a bit of sewing the other weekend , they all had a go like erm ooh , you know , I was saying he that Scott can cook and that , you know , we 've had a note he 's having one on , supposed to be all all of them to be independent , you know ?
11 It gets light home use and was good value for money when I bought it .
12 It 's just that I mean this is the only thing about Halloween that I do n't like is the import from America of this trick or treat nonsense .
13 ‘ The Jockey Club are looking for action and I hope what I devise will be practical and can be implemented . ’
14 David could you do me a report on that for command because I suspect nobody 's picture at all .
15 Of course he 'd sue me for slander if I made the accusation publicly .
16 Well they said what you having for tea and I said well we 'll have to have you can have a few beans or something
17 ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’
18 I 'm supposed to me meeting up with halvard on sunday when he comes up to newcastle , but I think he left for england before I had time to mail him my phone number .
19 In addition to the processes just described , repeated presentation of a stimulus also brings about those changes responsible for habituation that I discussed in Chapter 2 — changes that were characterized as resulting in the formation of a representation of the stimulus .
20 ‘ I went to sit in the library to wait for Mummy and I started to cry . ’
21 For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something .
22 I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before .
23 after Easter cos I got people have most go in work experience and I did n't get a place after Easter like .
24 Well I well I 'll have a week 's holiday after Easter and I 've got ta go unless we go to .
25 Tha him , look how , look how he after mummy and I give him
26 ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’
27 I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times .
28 In this notebook , recording my random thoughts day after day as I work on the big glass , I can keep my distance from the big glass .
29 I mean they only threw him out because they just did n't , have the , the , the staff , I mean I sat in there day after day and I felt bloody sorry , they were ringing , ninety percent of their day taken by ringing , begging for staff
30 I sent him away after supper and I 've been finishing Emma .
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