Example sentences of "[prep] what i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have to , because there 's no way he 'll have time for me after what I said to him . ’ |
| 2 | I just said : ‘ Skipper , after what I said about your bowlers in the paper , I had to ! ’ |
| 3 | I never met him and , after what I heard about him , I never had any ambition so to do . |
| 4 | Yeah well it was the , it was a week ago so it 's not what I did to it , it would n't stay soggy after what I did to it . |
| 5 | But in these four cases there are features that require the decision , which was relatively recent , to be reconsidered after what I consider to be a proper procedure . |
| 6 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 7 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |
| 8 | Mr Healey : ‘ I did send her a copy of what I wrote about her to see that she did n't object . |
| 9 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 10 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 11 | ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’ |
| 12 | This is an important part of what I intend by the transnational capitalist class ( TCC ) , but with two important differences . |
| 13 | Implicit in much of what I express about Basil 's achievement is the recognition of Rosemary 's very significant contribution within this splendid partnership in Art Education . |
| 14 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 15 | And charitably she added : ‘ To this day , I do n't know if it was because of what he looked like or because of what I looked like . ’ |
| 16 | Or a passage in the police officer 's statement to the effect ‘ As a result of what I said to him … he was unable to produce a driving licence for that class of vehicle ’ . |
| 17 | For some reason , Fenella thought most of what I said to her was rude . |
| 18 | Years abroad had made me wary of what I said on the telephone . |
| 19 | Before we proceed to Prime Minister 's Questions , may I remind the House of what I said on Tuesday ? |
| 20 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 21 | I saw it as a choice of what I believed to be my obligations , how I see motherhood . |
| 22 | Enough of what I regard as a premeditated incident at Lord 's . ’ |
| 23 | The next fallacy that causes some confusion in the discussion is the persistence of what I regard as a narrow outdated approach to the notion of sovereignty . |
| 24 | Lines like 41–2 , ‘ turned the thistles of a curse/To types beneficent ’ , are quite remarkable and are an example of what I mean by ‘ experimental ’ . |
| 25 | In particular , it is necessary to pay close attention to the relationship of civil society ( within which I will include much of what I mean by a specific urban culture ) and state forms and processes , in a context of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ . |
| 26 | Because that 's really erm a part of what I mean by this criterion . |
| 27 | That phrase has never been a cliché to me , but an exact description of what I experienced in 1946 . |
| 28 | That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation . |
| 29 | Alright , well then er , with that expression , of what I hope to be confidence , , in erm , the management of our affairs over this last year , erm , let me put the resolution at , as on the paper before you , I wo n't read it again . |
| 30 | This is not justice ; it is not even a theory of morality , since it rejects a consideration of what I take to be central to moral theory , the sense of each person being a member of a community with , inevitably , obligations and duties to others , as well as rights . |