Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 2 | If I am happy with their quality , I will ask for the quantity that I want . |
| 3 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 4 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 5 | They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place . |
| 6 | Well they 're probably just asking you , asking for the answer that I just gave you . |
| 7 | It was when he was commissioned to write seventeen and a half minutes of light music for the radio that I discovered why Jean-Claude had insisted I bring from London some of my most beautifully tailored suits and expensive dresses . |
| 8 | Erm so ultimately I mean I 've got to decide which company is best suited for the area that I want to go in . |
| 9 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |
| 10 | However , I must break that rule this morning and apologise for the fact that I have an extremely heavy cold , which will make the delivery of my speech a long process — and even longer for the House , which has to be detained in listening to it . |
| 11 | I apologise for the fact that I heard only about 40 minutes of the Minister of Agriculture 's speech . |
| 12 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 13 | I think your aunt can vouch for the fact that I was . ’ |
| 14 | He said I was just covering up for the fact that I had n't the faintest idea of what was wrong . ’ |
| 15 | And for those reasons and for the fact that I , more or less enjoyed the journey and had to come anyway as a chauffeur ! |
| 16 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 17 | This was nearly 50 per cent higher than the latest official statistics for the prison that I was able to obtain : on 31 December 1987 , just over a year earlier , there had been a population of 405 . |
| 18 | Last year this was arranged as usual but I was so busy looking after my guests during the day that I had to rush getting ready for the evening out . |
| 19 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You know , Piper , I was so shit scared during the bombardment that I lay on the floor of that trench and prayed . |
| 21 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 22 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 23 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 24 | I have continuously taken the view during the time that I have held my present office that it is a great privilege to be Secretary of State for Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Er well there was none of them got married during the time that I was there . |
| 26 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 27 | There is a very strong link between the list that I have read out and the authorities whose councillors advocated non-payment — Lambeth , for instance , whose councillors were so bad that even the Labour party had to remove them from office . |
| 28 | That 's a big chunk of the population and I worried about the hardship that I was causing as a result of what was really a commercial decision . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I was so suprised when I got the letter telling me about the award that I burst into tears , ’ says Joan , a widow . |
| 30 | It was n't until The Byrds ’ ‘ Untitled ’ double album came out with the liner notes explaining all about the string-bender that I found out what a fool I 'd been … |