Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 2 | That afternoon I left for Abu Dhabi with the promise that I would indeed see them in Al Ain in a week 's time . |
| 3 | That afternoon I walked round the circuit alone and thought about it . |
| 4 | That afternoon I went to the café at Fagurhólsmýri and bought a pair of Tuf workman boots . |
| 5 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 6 | That afternoon I sat in my room and unpacked my things . |
| 7 | Well that course I went on you know , there was er , there were , there were , there 'd be about twelve in the class and there were two young women in the class |
| 8 | In that hour I heard about life on a London newspaper , the great novel that was one day going to be written , the shock to the Francis family when the General 's eldest son refused to go into the Army . |
| 9 | That talk I had to Johnny 's not done m a blind bit of good . |
| 10 | Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales . |
| 11 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 12 | There 's another bit I missed over there . |
| 13 | The M and M I did n't like This trick I obtained from Paul Daniels , and my sister the Amazing Avril uses it in her children 's shows . |
| 14 | In this case I refer to the DG issues of Domingo ‘ Arias and Tangos ’ and the Wunderlich five-CD collection . |
| 15 | In this case I begin with two on a 16 , and if necessary go down to one caster on an 18 . |
| 16 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 17 | And this bit I do before the lesson and I do this , clean it up afterwards . |
| 18 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 19 | This hour I spent in sketching Ranza Castle . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a Scottish guy in this bakery I go to and he tells me they love me in Scotland . |
| 21 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 22 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 23 | So in this chapter I look at what is meant by power and how some individuals and groups exercise social power . |
| 24 | But anyway , some lawyer I think in New York , working for Rockefeller Brothers , sent a piece of slate to my Uncle Jonathan , asking him could he tell , what quarry in Wales , this particular tile had come from . |
| 25 | And every time I look at this card I take in everything on it and er , at a subliminal level . |
| 26 | ‘ They had some panelling I wanted for a boat I did up , and some antique bathroom fittings . |
| 27 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
| 28 | Gill listen to this , right , Gill who , who 's this girl I live with , right , got a knock on the door the other week and this guy come to the door with a Wa a Sony Walkman , yeah , and a microphone |
| 29 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 30 | But it reminded me , of this bloke I met in a port once . |