Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 2 | And at the beginning of the following term I wrote in huge letters on the front of my rough book ( regularly inspected by the housemistress ) , ‘ Exuberance is beauty ’ . |
| 3 | I think perhaps it is the cocaine I keep for medical purposes , pure , straight cocaine . |
| 4 | If I could speak French like François Mitterrand I probably would n't have the empathy I do for young horses . |
| 5 | During the next two days I advised on industrial relations problems in catering , computers and property services and sent back three more folders of work to my line manager . |
| 6 | Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces . |
| 7 | ‘ I doubt whether I could have indicated it more clearly than by the importance I placed on foreign affairs in the last year . |
| 8 | I will also devote some time to topic work because of the importance I attach to integrated approaches to learning . |
| 9 | I have really not seen anything as bad as that , apart from the attacks I had from Labour members when I first got the Commons , when they called me Harvey Proctor in drag . |
| 10 | One of the subscribers taking part in the trials said : ‘ I would n't have had the problems I had with malicious calls a few years ago if I 'd had Caller Display then . ’ |
| 11 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 12 | Between them Caroline and M have every quality I hate in other women . |
| 13 | The good news I hear from feminist friends is that it 's becoming old hat these days to involve the father in childbirth . |
| 14 | And names I saw on printed lists , quotas , manifests . |
| 15 | ‘ ’ Many the rich cheeses I pressed for ungrateful townsfolk , Yet never did I get home with much money in my pocket , ’ ' quoted Bacci , who had studied at the Liceo Classico . |
| 16 | After my graduation I lectured in marketing-related subjects at a local Australian Government College . |
| 17 | But as soon as I had the door shut I began to ransack the flat for the sheet music I keep for special occasions such as Christmas , bar mitzvahs , weddings and so on . |
| 18 | I can read all the newspapers I want in public libraries . |
| 19 | ‘ Another thing I admired about young lads like Ken Logan , Gregor Townsend and Peter Wright is that they have the right attitude , a little bit of cockiness . |
| 20 | Complexes of actinomycin with a radiolabelled DNA fragment ( tyr T ) were dissociated by addition of a large excess of unlabelled calf thymus DNA and the mixture subjected to DNase I footprinting at subsequent intervals . |
| 21 | The number of enquiries I get from distant countries is ample evidence of EE 's wide circulation , and some of them are not a little odd or amusing . |
| 22 | And of course , as I told you long ago , you are beautiful , and I like the looks I get from other men when I 'm with a beautiful woman . ’ |
| 23 | As an entertainer I run in bright colours and I run for the public . |
| 24 | From time to time I took in little details of his face : his small , neat ears round which the moonlight-blond locks curled ; the light golden stubble round his laughing mouth ; the rather dry , sensuous yet slightly cruel lips ; the perfect column of the neck and throat emerging from his open shirt , unbuttoned to give me — was it deliberate ? — a shadowy glimpse of a dark nipple in a hairless chest , the beautifully smooth breast of an ancient god . |
| 25 | On other nights I dreamed of other pests . |
| 26 | But I have different slides I use for different things . |
| 27 | I just stood there , smelling the pungency of the herbs in the hedge behind me , that sharp sweet scent I remembered from Mediterranean holidays . |