Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've bought a bottle of whisky and I 'm planning to drink my way right through it . ’ |
| 2 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
| 3 | I 'VE been told I retain a lot of moisture when I eat . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I wondered as I thought of secrets if I might find some release in telling Lili the thing that festered in my soul , and I asked her if she would listen . |
| 6 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 7 | Spending time there and in Biella , I have a good balance of values that I like personally . ’ |
| 8 | I when I see him when I see , George does a lot of housekeeping when I see him clearing the bed I say oh goodness look book . |
| 9 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 10 | This is the second principle for the social modelling of change that I discussed in chapter 1 . |
| 11 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
| 12 | Local negotiators like me take a lot of stick and I 'm just gon na pass that stick straight on to you , because my members tell me all the time , I pay one thirty five a week , well so do I . |
| 13 | ‘ YES , I was fired up — I always get like that when I 've had a bit of stick and I have had a lot of stick lately . ’ |
| 14 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 15 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 16 | But before I clap eyes on his miserable face , I intend to down as many cups of sack as I can ! |
| 17 | I 've become very fond of Ellis and I 'm prepared on occasion to be tempted into his latest hare-brained scheme , but I 'm buggered if I 'll carry on like Richard Hannay and his chums in a John Buchan novel . |
| 18 | I still can not conceal from you my feeling of exultation as I first watched these exquisite creatures emerging before my eyes . |
| 19 | Not that I 'm any sort of expert but I had misspent much of a happy youth in the ‘ feeling lucky , punk ? ’ school of cinema and I could tell Clint Eastwood 's Magnum from , say , The Magnificent Seven's Colt .45s , blindfolded . |
| 20 | End of story as I see it . |
| 21 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I know he was very wrong to rob me but I 'm grateful he had a change of heart when I took ill . |
| 23 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 24 | Well , my Lord the case is about the practice of solicitors and I 've pleaded upon the practice , that 's part of the statement . |
| 25 | A detailed report on our divisional activities is contained in the Review of Operations and I will therefore concentrate on a general review of some of the more important developments and issues affecting both the Group and industry . |
| 26 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 27 | I have never heard a tufted duck quack , or indeed make any kind of noise so I was intrigued to learn that the female bird growls . |
| 28 | All the assassin had to do was take the piece of thread as I did , pull it very slowly , which hardly makes a sound , and murder is only a few seconds away . |
| 29 | These can be expressed in varying degrees of complexity but I shall try to keep it as simple as possible . |
| 30 | I wish Ray Hankin the best of luck but I question the choice . |