Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , Stephen 's mother uses Hilary as an excuse to stay on at the Manor and I want rid of her . ’ |
| 2 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 3 | All I do to the Tokais when I get them is put five springs in the back , take the tremolo arm out and tighten all the screws at the bridge and raise the action . |
| 4 | Well , the Dean and I took great joy in disabusing that person of that mistaken view . |
| 5 | The purpose of the visit was to have a private audience with the Pope and also to visit the departments in the Vatican that I had particular interest in . |
| 6 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |
| 7 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 8 | My friend Simon Jones was over from the States and I 'd promised him seats that night , and then forgotten all about it . |
| 9 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 10 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 11 | The Sheikha and I got in the back while the Sheikh took the wheel . |
| 12 | I made tea , my ungloved hand sticking to the Trangia when I tried to move it from its snowdrift . |
| 13 | First Mrs Agnes McGuinness : ‘ My husband went out on the Saturday and I did n't see him again until the Sunday morning . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I 'll take another look at the Fragonards before I go . |
| 15 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 16 | ‘ The WBC are not interested in a unification fight with the WBO but I do n't see any problems as it can be a simple defence of Paul 's WBC title . ’ |
| 17 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 18 | Hassan , who was usually with him in Abu Dhabi as well as England , manoeuvred into the rear seat of the Mercedes and I took my place beside the young son who had long since graduated into a licensed driver . |
| 19 | Cos I come in on the Friday after I picked her up from school . |
| 20 | First stop was Stornoway where Ewen Munro , the Manager , was on hand to relieve me of an important part of my luggage , The Crofter of the Year Cup , which I was to present in Stornoway at a Dinner on the Friday once I had returned from my more distant island travels . |
| 21 | The writer said , in effect , " Here is my Horace " , and the reader responded , in effect , " This is/is not the Horace that I know " , appraising the performance from the heart as well as the mind , much as a listener might appraise the rendering of a familiar musical work . |
| 22 | Let's have a look at the Aberdeen cos I did work on the Aberdeen |
| 23 | I compare the Alvey proposals with the Concorde because I felt that as with the Concorde project too much of our limited resources are being put into one programme . |
| 24 | ‘ I spent 12 years working in the NHS and I did n't come into politics to privatise it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 're proposing that you and Mercia and the Normans and I invade Wessex and drive out the Godwinssons again ? |
| 26 | the Normans and I think you 've got ta |
| 27 | I could see a barge or something out there in the middle of the Thames but I 've never been much good with boats . |
| 28 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 29 | I was looking for the Mr because I remembered I said I would be here in this session and I 'd forgotten . |
| 30 | Just after the end of our period , in the late 1150s , the celebrated intellectual and letter writer John of Salisbury recounted his travels : ‘ ten times have I crossed the chain of the Alps since I left England first ; twice have I travelled through Apulia ; I have done business often in the Roman court on behalf of my superiors and friends ; and on a variety of counts I have traversed England , and France too , many times . ’ |