Example sentences of "[prep] [det] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In any event , Miss Kyte — at least Theda , for that I know to be her real name — is not to lose by this . |
2 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
3 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
4 | After that I dropped to 5 , 7 and out , but he sailed on magisterially . |
5 | After that I put in another fast lap and coasted from there on . ’ |
6 | After that I listened to my Walkman , and later talked to Ron . |
7 | After that I went off music for a while . |
8 | After that I went to bed ; I suppose it would be around midnight . ’ |
9 | And then after that I went to a public school but er to those years er I just followed the pattern . |
10 | ‘ … after that I worked as a secretary . |
11 | After that I forgot about seeing Tavett and did n't remember until I was leaving the building . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
16 | After that I started in Bakery as an apprentice baker . |
17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
18 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
19 | ‘ Well I like that … that 's rich that is after all I do for you . |
20 | ‘ After all I did for you ! |
21 | I thought I was giving you more than that , ee , first of all I went to fifteen percent , you said |
22 | Relying on memory , the dates in my diary and what my wife recalls of all I said on coming away from the Presence , I have done my best to get things right . |
23 | First of all I think at the end of the day that we all know a democracy never comes cheap , it 's erm , there are cheaper alternatives for administering decisions , but erm , but dictatorship does n't go well and therefore democracy will never come cheap . |
24 | I did n't make friends easily , but the funny thing is that some of those I went to school with , and was n't so close to , have become good friends in later life . |
25 | One of those I saw in Northampton was extremely impressive and is founded as my honourable friend says , on positive partnership . |
26 | Indeed , with hindsight and viewed from a far cooler and more rational climate , my astonishment is now all the greater , because many of those I evangelized to , far from rebelling , seemed to respond . |
27 | As life speeds up like this I move among the urban people , in the urban setting , the city 's metal and mortar , its sharper interactions , with more grit and bite in the gears . |
28 | ‘ Look where it 's got us ! ’ — that was the assumption behind all I said at Diodati the other evening . |
29 | Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all . |
30 | So now that 's about all I have on these two missions for you and I hope this will be of some help and er be only too glad to hear from you . |