Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of course a great advantage if the organization starts , so to speak , with this in place and in our case I believe our scientific heritage and background lead naturally to a wish to hear , dissect and learn from others ' views . |
| 2 | On my way through Kelvingrove Park I flipped my once-precious packet into a wastebasket and walked on . |
| 3 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 4 | One night in March I visited my old friend at his home in Baker Street . |
| 5 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 6 | On occasions I also added acrylic medium to the Quink to prevent any unnecessary bleeding of the line , although at times I enjoyed its non-waterproof qualities and allowed the ink to run . |
| 7 | As chairman of the recently established development committee of this respected national association I enclose its first appeal brochure , in the hope that your Trustees will support our important apolitical and expanding remit . |
| 8 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
| 9 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 10 | No it 's no good Dennis I heard it last week . |
| 11 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 12 | I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket . |
| 13 | With the fall of Singapore the fate of Rangoon seemed sealed and on 19th February I paid my last visit to the Delta , to bring back our missionary nurse and to confer with village clergy and elders and teachers about what should be done if the worst happened . |
| 14 | With David 's help I unfurled my multi-coloured paraglider , donned a helmet and strapped myself into the simple harness . |
| 15 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 16 | Something made me snatch the woolly choirboy from its metal gallows ( even at that moment I noticed its surprising weight ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 18 | Did that job I give you this morning . |
| 19 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 20 | For the next few weeks I reported my unimportant news to the office . |
| 21 | In the Variations and smaller pieces I questioned their fast tempo for little Maximiliane Brentano 's Allegretto ( WoO39 ) , and even for the minuet-like Scherzo of the early E flat Trio experiment ( WoO38 ) , while for the most part enjoying their wholly natural , unselfconscious approach to these works too . |
| 22 | Back at Stuart Street I cemented my new-found friendship with Doogie and Miranda by presenting them with the leg of lamb . |
| 23 | That evening I had my first meal since leaving England eighteen hours before ; by the time the pizza , chicken stew and garlicked beans arrived from the kitchen they were cold , but I was so hungry that I had seconds , which amazed Alex . |
| 24 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 25 | For years I poured my unfulfilled desire |
| 26 | By the end of that day I had my first shots of a mink family in action . |
| 27 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 28 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 29 | Cos e the other day I left her forty pound dad . |
| 30 | The day I call you Chief Rabbit , Hazel , that 'll be the day , that will ! |