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

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1 ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’
2 In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier .
3 As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers .
4 Following the interesting article by Andy Fairgrieve on the realities of high speed skiing I enclose calculated curves which give the order of speeds attained by normal unstreamlined skiers in relation to the distance skied , in a straight line , down slopes at various angles , at about 6,000ft altitude .
5 Well I do n't know what this comes under but last or er last Saturday week I had several complaints about the old market square , you know where er and shop is .
6 erm where I am assertive it 's where I 'm working to a rule book I know those rules backwards and I want somebody to follow those to the letter
7 Fishing into my green Marks & Spencer carrier bag I found some biscuits and an apple , some old sandwiches , which I threw into the water for the fish — and oh yes , there was still some dandelion wine left .
8 This month I have the final part of the Creatures 2 solution , the second half of the Blues Brothers solution I printed last month , and lots more .
9 Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating .
10 It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only !
11 At the National Gallery 's new sumptuous shop in the Sainsbury Wing I recorded three books on Gwen John ( and none on Augustus , her brother ) , two on Artemisia Gentileschi ( one being the very scholarly and feminist monograph by Mary D Garrard , published by Princeton University Press , now in paperback ) , one book on Rosalba Carriera , and most surprisingly given the feminist industry around this artist , only one on Mary Cassatt .
12 When work group I met last June to ratify the final draft of their report , the US co-chairman , Claire Harris , did not appear .
13 Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away
14 When I was on the parapet of the convent wall I saw fresh horse dung lying near the main gate ; it was not from our mounts , but the lady prioress said no one had approached the convent . ’
15 As I look around our crew room I see professional pilots , not upper class or lower class , Jaguar of Trabant owners , just pilots have achieved their enviable careers through ability , determination , hard work and in most cases some financial hardship .
16 On Saturday evening and early Sunday morning I packed two bags , the new suitcase from England and a softer holdall bought in Toronto .
17 Not having a glue gun I put small bits of hot melt glue in a ring around the face plate and heat them with a heat lamp until the glue melts and a bond with the circle of wood can be made .
18 I am heading for a wilding apple tree I discovered last year — sniffed out , actually , since its lemon-yellow fruits smelt deliciously of quince and scented the air for dozens of yards around .
19 LYNN FAULDS WOOD RACHEL Why I hate my stomach and love eating out with Craig SLIMMING I lost stone in a year …
20 On Wednesday morning I did two things .
21 and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden
22 Near Arken where they cross the border that 's about two hundred miles and then , you know , by the time they 've gone through er er , they 'll sort of be well down into erm sort of Stuttgart way I think that sort of area probably .
23 Erm we pay our church organist I think twelve pounds a year .
24 During the pilot study I saw 160 patients ; only four chose to see a doctor in preference to the ENP .
25 Later on in my schooling life I made more friends but there has been a lot of falling outs , but we always make up again .
26 As a state politician I feel awkward talking about it , but our KGB has its own ‘ Mafia Department ’ for the nasty work , and it does just as it pleases .
27 At the beginning of the O-level summer term I weighed eight stone three pounds and , if I was pleased at having lost two pounds , I certainly did n't say so .
28 By the end of the summer term I weighed six stone one pound .
29 financial health check I think one company calls it .
30 When he died in the plane crash I cried all day .
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