Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 2 | An action was instituted — the only libel action where I acted for Harold Wilson which came to court — and I thought it wise to brief a member of the Opposition to act as counsel on his behalf . |
| 3 | It read : ‘ I ask you to consider that the effects of the legal action that I undertook in the Berne district court concerning my non-participation in the European Cup this year are null and void . |
| 4 | He was always grateful for ‘ the healthy and restorative force that I see in the country . ’ |
| 5 | He describes , as I did , the lack of access between the interiors of modules , but accepts the view of consciousness that I associated with Minsky 's views on heterarchy : that , roughly speaking , sometimes one module would be conscious and sometimes another , depending on circumstances : |
| 6 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 7 | This requires answering a basic check question : What is the single most important result that I want from this presentation ? |
| 8 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 9 | ‘ I got much more out of the car than I did in Kyalami and I did not make any mistakes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 12 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 13 | Now the fella that I worked with was the president of the union from the branch . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't recall giving any indication that I wanted to . ’ |
| 15 | There has been no other attempt that I know of to theorise dance and its particular appeal for girls . |
| 16 | It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's my boat that I made with my two hands , ’ he said . |
| 18 | It was this burning ambition that I took with me into 1986 . |
| 19 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |
| 20 | now if when I come back erm the the er the idea that erm the recommendation that I put before you , if this solves that particular need |
| 21 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
| 22 | In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position . |
| 23 | If , for example , I call my mother' brother 's son by the same term that I apply to my mother 's brother , the implication is that I share a common relationship with both . |
| 24 | It was therefore with a quickening of the blood that I read of a builder in Birmingham who has torn down his house in order to erect something bigger , and inadvertently left his neighbour 's previously attached semi teetering sideways . |
| 25 | It is with the greatest possible pleasure that I write to you once more , this time to confirm that your Company 's independence has been preserved after a battle which has lasted over nine months . |
| 26 | Thus it was with pleasure that I came across this series of ‘ cartoon stories for adults of any age ’ , created by French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit . |
| 27 | But nothing can take away the pleasure that I derived from looking at what I took to be a photograph . |
| 28 | Well , well actually , there 's one thing I 've missed out which I said I 'd come back to , and that was the front line review that I referred to . |
| 29 | The Prince submitted his action to the judgement of ‘ the one sovereign that I recognize in France — the people ! ’ . |
| 30 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |