Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 2 | Spending time there and in Biella , I have a good balance of values that I like personally . ’ |
| 3 | Well , my Lord the case is about the practice of solicitors and I 've pleaded upon the practice , that 's part of the statement . |
| 4 | Ken Clarke was my minister of roads and I remember him coming back on more than one occasion with steam coming out of his ears . |
| 5 | so I had a lot of contacts and I enjoyed it . |
| 6 | She 's looking through this rack of suits so I go and give her a hand . |
| 7 | ‘ So if you can come up with a way of going down there , past the guards , up to the house , into a room or two , and being left alone for a couple of minutes while I secure the devices — OK , you 've got what you want . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We had a fairly useful discussion and exchange of views and I think Mr. Pexton was interested to hear opinions from grassroots farmers , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Well a variety of views and I think the only generalization I can make about weddings is that you ca n't generalize about weddings , some people think they 're wonderful , some people are sceptical , people have done their own er variations on weddings . |
| 10 | That is the only case of the thousands of cases that I have raised with him to which he has said yes . |
| 11 | Why do n't you go and have a sleep for a couple of hours while I keep an eye on Chris ? ’ |
| 12 | Sir David continues to ask me every couple of hours if I 've done it yet . ’ |
| 13 | I eat plenty of vegetables and I do n't like chocolate . ’ |
| 14 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 15 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
| 16 | We 've been in a couple of times and I said that I wanted a chaise you see ooh I got this erm one for Victorian one it 's very nice , and lovely warm you know , the legs anyway it was one one thousand three hundred you see , so I thought , oh I said well I did n't wan na |
| 17 | a couple of times , you know , people were up my arse a couple of times and I retaliated a couple of times |
| 18 | But also — ’ I flipped the keys a couple of times as I stood up — ‘ because I think he enjoyed doing it . ’ |
| 19 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 20 | Well to a certain extent I suppose it 's true , erm but I suppose if you said , well erm you know , can I think of skills that I need to develop ? |
| 21 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 22 | Of the hundreds of meetings that I addressed , the Commissioner of Police had notes on every one . |
| 23 | The Minister held a number of meetings and I know what went on , but the opportunity was lost . |
| 24 | Regular readers of The Artist and this column may sometimes wonder if there is any method in the choice of subjects that I cover . |
| 25 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 26 | There is lots of books that I 've got , either the father or the brother cleaning , and it 's not just the mother and the daughter . |
| 27 | Says lots of words that I do n't use . |
| 28 | Or you can say : I 've researched it , I know the idea is right , I 'm going to go in big and I 'm going to have to sustain four or five years of losses before I turn it into a profit . |
| 29 | But I am afraid it would require a deeper understanding of the chemistry of proteins than I possess to explain how the energy of the ATP is harnessed to the active transport of salts and other substances . |
| 30 | I use all types of shampoos and I have to use loads and loads of conditioners — I like L'Oréal 's Protelene conditioner and Henara Wax . |