Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
| 2 | Through Ezra I found what is known in these parts as a ‘ room and kitchen ’ flat . |
| 3 | From the comments of Jimmy Armfield ( what does he know about football I hear you ask ) Deane looked completly out of place and completly uninterested . |
| 4 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 5 | I know I mean I know what I think in the back of my head but I mean I just prefer not to predict , I do n't want to say it does n't matter about thinking I know it 's a bit weird in you know . |
| 6 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 7 | ‘ When I played for Transvaal I found my role very different to that employed for either club or country . |
| 8 | I 've do It 's like it 's like practising for football I mean you might be the best footballer in the world and you say you know they say well you 've just won the cup say |
| 9 | ‘ They have n't called us the United Nations team yet , but after Tuesday I think they might , ’ admits captain Michael Patton . |
| 10 | See , my idea originally was that cos it comes back from when I used to go in the in the Blue Anchor in Lancaster after work I mean we had everybody in there ! |
| 11 | ‘ After Munich I thought we 'd saved the day . |
| 12 | After Africa I felt I could deal with it . ’ |
| 13 | Tonight after supper I told him he could buy paper from Woolworths and use gloves and so on . |
| 14 | After dinner I left them to shed their autobiographical burdens , and joined the Hobbs at their table in the bar . |
| 15 | ‘ After dinner I want you to come back to St-Cloud . |
| 16 | After coffee I announced myself eager for the fleecy crook of Morpheus ' shoulder , and they buggered off . |
| 17 | Well , what we 're having for a dinner for lunch I think we 're having bacon and eggs and sausage and things like that . |
| 18 | Well , after Marks advert for Clubcall I decided I just had to hijack the fax machines telephone line and call it up . |
| 19 | On one occasion when he was late for work I questioned him and he said he had missed the bus . |
| 20 | After he had left for work I found it , unmolested , under his coffee cup . |
| 21 | so erm yeah just hope I do n't get ill between now and round about July I think it 'll all be over |
| 22 | When I went below for visits I found her eating dates and musing on Lawrence 's alleged masochistic sexuality . |
| 23 | But at the time of building I think it was just continued practice from the victorian days to run it round on the top . |
| 24 | After the first couple of minutes I thought we were going to be in for a really entertaining game . |
| 25 | Well , I knew the movements of the ships , and the Emily was Captain Illingworth 's ship , and of course I knew him . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course I knew she could read , ’ the mother said . |
| 27 | Of course I knew it would n't : I 'm not that foolhardy ! |
| 28 | Of course I knew he saw Otto , but not what those visits implied , and Helmut — whether from loyalty to his friend or on account of some sort of inhibition in relation to me — never hinted at anything improper . |
| 29 | Of course I knew he was a genius . |
| 30 | Of course I saw her naked . |