Example sentences of "a [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm it 's just having that one room with a kitchen I think for if someone calls probably you see . |
| 2 | Well , it 's a , it 's a , it 's a case I suppose of , of science revealing the obvious , but er , of , of course it 's a fact today , we know why it 's a fact . |
| 3 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 4 | but erm Mr took t felt a bit I think about er |
| 5 | Er , he may be concerned but my Lord erm , there has been reference to the er the professional negligence and and my Lord there is a bit I have in court , I 'm afraid the second edition because the third edition which is the latest , was not available to me this morning , but there 's a paragraph in it and I want to refer your Lordship to it , I wonder if I might read it and er hand it up to your Lordship . |
| 6 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 7 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 8 | A drug I shot in San Francisco froze all my joints . ’ |
| 9 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 10 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 11 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 12 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 13 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 14 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They had some panelling I wanted for a boat I did up , and some antique bathroom fittings . |
| 16 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 17 | For a term I lived in a room which looked out straight across to the tower . |
| 18 | so it er , it were running alright then , and er I took it for a spin I went round the block , up Robin Hood Way |
| 19 | As a result I withdrew into myself , treated overtures of friendship with mistrust , and was easily provoked . |
| 20 | and erm I 'll be , we knit jumpers as well there , cardigans and as pick them a cardigan I bought from Blacks in Newcastle |
| 21 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 22 | If you 'd like to just hang on a second I want to this little . |
| 23 | Maybe Errol picked up on my mood because he said something offensive about a lady I regarded with deep affection . |
| 24 | ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |
| 25 | As a child I survived by forgetting . |
| 26 | ‘ A question I refuse to be drawn on . |
| 27 | There 's a pen I think in the white box behind you . |
| 28 | In a dream I went to the pictures , in Germany I think . |
| 29 | ‘ What a pity I have to be at the Brooksby plant this weekend , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I found a felt-tip pen in the desk drawer and addressed the envelope to ‘ Mr F. MacLean ’ care of a pub I knew in Southwark where they knew me by that name . |