Example sentences of "the [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 2 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 3 | I was amazed and terrified at the change I had so casually brought about in her . |
| 4 | But before he got into his aircraft to complete his detail he presented 20 piastres to Fagan , Fagan looked at the 20 piastres — and the 20 piastre piece was a great thing like a cartwheel , very large and bigger by far than an old-fashioned crown , some 2-2 ½ ″ wide , Fagan looked at this and the doctor said : I am sorry about the shit I blew over everybody — there is my fine , " Fagan looked at it and said " Doe , the fine was only 10 piastres . " |
| 5 | " 10 is for the shit I blew over you and 10 is for the shit I am just about to blow over you , Good-day sir . " |
| 6 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 7 | I was particularly close to one girl in there , very close indeed , and we were having a relationship during the sentence I 've just finished . |
| 8 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 9 | I tell you what I , the hedging I liked too , is if you can have a hedging that comes , you know , some of the garden centres sell them that you got something every month of the year |
| 10 | Returning to the front of the croft I batter once more on the door , knowing full well that I shall never see her again . |
| 11 | At that time of the afternoon I knew only Lisabeth would be home , so I was n't too worried . |
| 12 | You know it 's , it 's the money I mean why is anybody doing anything |
| 13 | So even if in ten years , twenty years time , I put a claim , the money I get then , will be the same seventy odd per cent of my salary as it would be today . |
| 14 | You see , I promised myself that all the money I earned out there in Australia should go to you ! |
| 15 | Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck . |
| 16 | ‘ But if that was the case I do n't see that she could have rushed . |
| 17 | No I missed it , there was no beasts in the field I came down . |
| 18 | On handing back the computer I put aside any previous prejudices and purchased my own . |
| 19 | Although I had ‘ backed up ’ on a floppy disc from the computer I lost both floppy and hard disc record on Friday ( yes 13th ) and it was all my address list — twenty pages this size of single line entries and with just a double space between As and Bs and Cs and Ds etc. ; I could have wept but had instead to laugh — only thing to do and a mistake or combination of same that I shall NOT make again . |
| 20 | if you get the virginal I do n't think |
| 21 | But we should at least notice how the new emphasis on the negative part of conventionalism deflates the hypothesis I mentioned earlier , that the negative part supports the political ideal of protected expectations by marking off cases in which that ideal can not be satisfied . |
| 22 | I get a bed , and food , and a bit of pocket money from the teaching I do when I fill in . |
| 23 | The contract I signed legally binds the station as much as it does me . |
| 24 | That 's the bit I do n't like , frankly . |
| 25 | That , I must confess , is the bit I do n't understand . |
| 26 | ‘ The bit I liked best , ’ says Phil , ‘ was when you prodded the pig and told it about the unfairness of micro-organisms . |
| 27 | I muttered thanks and as she disappeared to the kitchen I stepped up to the sitting room door , knocked rather timidly and entered . |
| 28 | A dip in the hill , much like those at Sulber Nick and Kirkby Nick , led over the crest by an outcrop and as I walked out from the dip I saw ahead of me Raydale with , to my left , Semer Water and Addlebrough behind it . |
| 29 | The teachers on such a programme would have to confront the difficulty I have just raised , as well as questions about the mimetic values of fiction in the face of structuralist and poststructuralist assertions that word and world have no necessary relation . |
| 30 | ‘ But you 're here now , so you may have a few more minutes with him , until the drug I have just administered takes effect . |