Example sentences of "the [noun sg] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I have n't told the management about the lymphoma , and have n't had a repeat of the weakness I experienced in Birmingham , so have put it down to adrenalin overdose and imagination .
2 But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’
3 The simple lines of modern architecture break up space and light in a very mechanical way , and not with the variety I seek in my paintings .
4 The simple lines of modern architecture break up space and light in a very mechanical way , and not with the variety I seek in my paintings .
5 ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season .
6 No chance to talk to Mum about the bike I dream of day and night !
7 The blow I shrank from did not fall .
8 After the winner I rode for him at York . ’
9 In the afternoon I attend to the needs of the inhabitants of the Smoking Room and the gallery .
10 I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’
11 ‘ Listen , Maurice , as I say I am now playing the lead in this show , and I think it is about time you sorted out some deal on the money I get for doing it . ’
12 The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’
13 ‘ Cristo , when I think of the money I spent on detectives … ’
14 All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me .
15 ‘ Yes , all the money I have with me ! ’
16 Well , well his parents I mean the extreme Protestants are , are on the rise I mean in South America you know I mean the world 's largest Pentecostal Churches are in Lima and Peru and millions are now becoming erm born-again Christians in South America .
17 ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD .
18 ‘ It was Christabel who wrote the description I read of the Seal Court winter garden .
19 In some ways it is an improvement over yet older versions , sions , but I hope you realise that the information it encapsulates is much vaguer and less certain than the description I gave of what single cells can do .
20 Many of the most important and prominent proteins of the synaptic membrane are of the class known as glycoproteins , which , if the description I gave in Chapter 3 now seems a long way back , can best be summed up as molecules made in two parts ; an amino acid chain embedded in the membrane , to which is attached a further chain made of sugar molecules such as glucose , fucose and galactose , sticking out from the membrane into the extracellular space beyond .
21 I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines .
22 ‘ I still lie awake at night trying to justify the decision I made in Libya .
23 It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots
24 So , I tell you what , if , if we do end up spending Christmas at gon na give me the present I got to Di and said thank you Di for giving Stella the Christmas present .
25 The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’
26 When I began to visit Chedworth many years ago , often with a party of students , I well remember the difficulty I had in explaining the buildings in these terms .
27 Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist .
28 No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes .
29 MENZIESHILL secured the Division I title in the Scottish Indoor League for the third successive year when old rivals MIM beat second-placed Kelburne 7-6 at the Dick McTaggart Centre in Dundee .
30 After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch .
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