Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An outspoken individualist , Sandy never left anyone in doubt about his views , and when as a newspaper editor I came under governmental pressure from time to time , Sandy was usually the first to phone his support with disdainful disregard of the fact that the telephones were tapped by the state security police . |
| 2 | Maybe Errol picked up on my mood because he said something offensive about a lady I regarded with deep affection . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a girl I know of called Bella something , ’ said Mary . |
| 4 | I do believe that one of the best ways we 're going to benefit from the new circumstances I hope of economic stability of low inflation and low taxation , will be to ensure that the provision of capital is made by the principle institutions , namely the banks and the investing institutions . |
| 5 | Another important aim I envisaged for New Millennium when it was incorporated in 1983 was the development of holiday ideas which would try to eliminate damage to the environment associated with mass tourism . |
| 6 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 7 | fruits of the forest I treat with great suspicion |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I would never be another Thomas Hardy so I 'd write romance , using places I know in real life for inspiration , ’ she says . |
| 9 | And of course there 's the fact that any statements I make about general business confidence are price sensitive and could knock the share price . ’ |
| 10 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
| 11 | It is not so much the face as the figure and deportment I consider of paramount concern . ’ |
| 12 | With all the genuine , yet inherently easy , sympathy of the committed onlooker , it is a prospect I anticipate with profound interest . |
| 13 | Earlier this morning I suggested to arch modernizer Harriet Harman that she and her reforming colleagues had run into the buffers . |
| 14 | erm There is a general concern I think with multiple occupancy that there 's , a whole way of life of East Oxford is changing , and not for the better , and indeed I was part of this when I moved into the area ten years ago . |
| 15 | The image I had of whole group drama when I was first introduced to the idea was of a large crowd scene in which everybody was acting as a group . |
| 16 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ The Cambridge University report I read with great interest because I had no understanding of children , not having any of my own . |
| 18 | Say like erm th stresses we 're all under will cause depression , but after my had my children I suffered from reactive hyperglycaemia , low blood sugar , and we , that was glucose intolerance and I think an awful lot of women erm , suffer th from this and it 's not erm found out and knowing the glucose intolerance I can understand how a lot of children erm , suffer from er problems with eating habits because I think this is being discovered more and more |
| 19 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 20 | I 've got a calendar from the day I start shooting , and I start crossing off the days the way I did at high school , waiting for summer vacation to begin . ’ |
| 21 | The two Bangladeshi boys I had for remedial English all this year . |
| 22 | Frank was a retired boffin I think from British Aerospace . |
| 23 | These cards I filed in alphabetical order , and I noted on each one details of new purchases and quantities . |
| 24 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 25 | Twenty metres or so from the grass-packed hill which looks over the Rabbit Grounds I switched to Silent Running , pacing stealthily through the long weeds and reeds , careful not to let anything I was carrying make a noise . |
| 26 | The mending and making good , the painting , papering and patching of Melin Cottage each winter were jobs I approached with diminishing verve also , and the climbing in connection with the weeding and maintenance of the terraces were frankly becoming an enervating bore . |