Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
| 2 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
| 7 | Between them Caroline and M have every quality I hate in other women . |
| 8 | After my graduation I lectured in marketing-related subjects at a local Australian Government College . |
| 9 | I can read all the newspapers I want in public libraries . |
| 10 | As an entertainer I run in bright colours and I run for the public . |
| 11 | These cards I filed in alphabetical order , and I noted on each one details of new purchases and quantities . |
| 12 | 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 . |