Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb base] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In this case I feel a deep conviction that I 'm not making a mistake .
2 I went down the steps at the sign of the big neon M. I put a five-copeck piece into the automatic entrance which wo n't prevent non-payers travelling but buses in order to embarrass them .
3 For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke .
4 On deck I feel a perfect target for any sniping moron .
5 And of course I get a big boost when something like this happens , because words make plain sense , even though Tod always reads them backwards .
6 Each time I have a pint in the pub at Rhydd Ddu I recall a snowy Easter night spent waiting for mates who had set off earlier to tackle the Snowdon Horseshoe .
7 During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome .
8 At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured .
9 Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty .
10 Behind those eyes I see a romantic mind . ’
11 ‘ We made love , but life will carry on , and while we 're under the same roof I think a verbal truce is in order . ’
12 As Fairburn and Kay explain , ‘ [ i ] f I produce a poor product , then I will gradually lose market share , and my competitors will gradually gain it .
13 Did they ever say to you I do n't want a diffused light I want a direct light ?
14 We see an awful lot of people have got a tremendous investment in traditional character cell terminals and by a character cell terminal I mean a dumb terminal of twenty four lines of eighty characters .
15 Mummy I want a tiny bit more please .
16 Mummy I want a big bit
17 Mummy I want a big bowl have a big bowl
18 Now , with the Art Dealers Association you have a professional group that could call and say to the dealer , ‘ Listen , that picture is wrong .
19 Now I appreciate that some people seem to object to the words public protection , erm I 'm not certain why bearing in mind you have a public protection committee .
20 If you put the gravel under the cloth and wipe the car you get a great mark .
21 If you get your lump sum out if you want a new car you get a new car .
22 ‘ To set up a million dominoes you need a huge hall that has to be totally isolated for more than six weeks , ’ says Peter Matthews .
23 The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through .
24 Sometimes when we project into the future we have a reasonable expectation , based on experience , of what will happen .
25 In Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland we encounter a large cat , lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear .
26 Yeah , that 's right income , income elastic manufactured goods , as a result manufactured erm sectors will be growth sectors simply bec , because as income per capita rises , people spend proportionately more of their increased income on manufactured goods and as a result we witness a marked increase in trade in manufactures .
27 I have a particular interest in South Africa 's erm foreign policy and one of the , from the past , one of the things that South African decision makers have said to me , our dilemma is we do not know what American policy is because if we listen to the Pentagon we get a different voice coming out than if we listen to , let us say , congressional members who are visiting from the committee of foreign affairs .
28 Even if we tabulate only those time-words and their associated tempos for the movements where there is unequivocal evidence for such tempos , in H400D and the two Strasbourg motets that is without relying on those movements calculated by reference to tempo relationships we see a remarkable degree of unanimity .
29 In this chapter we provide a detailed summary as a practical aid , to help the reader to see precisely what Nietzsche is saying .
30 But on Saturday we face a new challenge , virtually the Bath team led by Stuartwho clearly has already made his mark on South West .
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