Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 2 | This is the second principle for the social modelling of change that I discussed in chapter 1 . |
| 3 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I know he was very wrong to rob me but I 'm grateful he had a change of heart when I took ill . |
| 5 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 6 | All the assassin had to do was take the piece of thread as I did , pull it very slowly , which hardly makes a sound , and murder is only a few seconds away . |
| 7 | Indeed the covenant is important but it is Christ who holds the key to the understanding of baptism and I thought that you would like to hear how your work has helped us to see our way in this respect . |
| 8 | so quiet and so well respected , he was so kind , you see , and so I 'm grateful and of course before I married , you see , I , we used to have three passes . |
| 9 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 10 | ‘ They phoned about 10.30 at night , and of course because I had everything here , I was available . |
| 11 | The strangest of stories ( And of course when I told her that , she just threw me out of the house , my own Mother … well , Goodnight Mother , I can tell you ) were treated as entirely credible . |
| 12 | And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly . |
| 13 | there were one or two lads in our unit who were sons of er , of er manufacturing , one was er Crawford Biscuits you know , I soldiered with him and I do n't know if you remember er erm , er but anyway , Frank , Frank at Keighley of course when I got , when we got married he , he came up and got us these blankets did n't he ? |
| 14 | Well of course when I went to the Isle of Man , see , I went on the boat and er , you see , and er it only cost me ninepence for a , a landing er for the landing stage . |
| 15 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 16 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 17 | you see We was working together and you know a a few benches from each other and of course as I told you the the lads worked with a man . |
| 18 | And in the summer of course as I said before there was three ice cream shops and a chip shop and then up the island there was , , and that was all |
| 19 | And so why have the MPs taken it upon themselves now , remembering of course as I mentioned early , that they are on a minimum of thirty one thousand pounds a year . |
| 20 | and that 's the way its it left we left it but of course as I mentioned to him we 'd completely omitted Tats which of course we we we had n't done Tats at all . |
| 21 | I said , of course and I said it would be nice company and so she said er you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before , as I only live in Manchester . |
| 22 | I 've been looking after myself of course and I got together her lunch at sits , I sit all the time . |
| 23 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 24 | But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data . |
| 25 | I wanted specifically to address myself to one rumour which seems to be a circulating dilemma , a great deal of enthusiasm and I heard that at er Chichester Railway Station today erm the staff at Chichester Railway Station seem to be under the impression that the erm the emergency planning authorities er have imminent proposals to breach the railway line south of to allow the flood water to escape to the sea , with the result so I was quite earnestly and er without any doubt that the railway will be closed for six months erm the , the Chairman of the County Council just raised this issue with the Emergency Planning , I understand that this is er an unsubstantiated rumour and er that there be a an immediate er destruction of the railways is not imminent but er I think perhaps it shows that erm probably due to the the great media interest and all sorts of stories are er doing a round but it goes without saying of course that the railway was n't closed for six months to the railway , but I do n't think there is any er any prospect to that , but I think the Chairman Council feels that . |
| 26 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 27 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 28 | ‘ When Boon began , I felt guilty about earning a lot of money so I became a soft touch for begging letters and charity appeals , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I thought about buying a gun , but decided against that too ; I 'd be out of money before I left . |
| 30 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |