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 . |