Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 2 | My heart chilled and I gnawed at my lip to hide my disappointment . |
| 3 | Anyway , I was shattered and I went to bed . |
| 4 | " Father — is it possible — is it possible that Jennifer and me could be wed before I go with you ? " |
| 5 | A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen 's apartment lay . |
| 6 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 7 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 9 | So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility |
| 10 | There 's lots of new plays being written that I look at and say ‘ Oh yes — there 's lots of opportunities there ’ . |
| 11 | It will be apparent from what I have already said that I agree with the views expressed by Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 , 41–42 . |
| 12 | When I develop that thesis it will be seen that I agree with McDowell as to the intrinsic attractiveness or repulsiveness of value qualities . |
| 13 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 14 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 15 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |
| 16 | But nothing seems to be done and I tire of it . |
| 17 | I was there when British Telecom was privatised and I warned of the grave dangers in turning public monopolies into private monopolies . |
| 18 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 19 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 20 | Er he attended to me and I should n't have done but I looked at my notes at th bottom of the bed one day and it said , Interference denied . |
| 21 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |
| 22 | Chairman erm I know from my own experience elsewhere that er car boot sales are a cause of great concern and I , I wo n't repeat what various other small local firms have said because I agree with all their comments . |
| 23 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 24 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 25 | In fact , that was only done as I walked through the door . |
| 26 | I felt hotter than I need have done as I thought of the man who fed the dough on long , long shovels into that blazing hole . |
| 27 | he must have felt as I felt in that empty place . |
| 28 | Since the first of January this year safety representatives have been given legal rights to be con consulted and I quote in good time regarding the following one any measure which substantially affects the health and safety of employees two the arrangements for appointing specialist staff three any health and safety information circulated to employees four the planning and organization of any health and safety training and five , the introduction of new technologies . |
| 29 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 30 | Those words are n't used where I come from . |