Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MENZIESHILL secured the Division I title in the Scottish Indoor League for the third successive year when old rivals MIM beat second-placed Kelburne 7-6 at the Dick McTaggart Centre in Dundee . |
| 2 | Of course I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the level of violence during the past two or three months . |
| 3 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 4 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 5 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 6 | But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so |
| 7 | In a later chapter I refer to the modern notions of witchcraft and satanism which receive such wide publicity today . |
| 8 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 9 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 10 | I consider the and figure should be discounted down to eighteen , which is the figure I adopt for the whole life multiplier . |
| 11 | The type I recommend for the average player is one that has 12 to 13 degrees of loft , deepish in the face , and toed-in slightly . |
| 12 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 13 | There 's a pen I think in the white box behind you . |
| 14 | She was not at all the uppity , self-important celebrity I read about the next day . |
| 15 | ‘ I would like to make clear the importance I attach to the continued availability of advice , from within and outside the NHS , in contributing to the development of the health service in Scotland , ’ said Lord Fraser . |
| 16 | The bells have far more impact , and tempos are more extreme — to the benefit of the first two fast movements , but to the detriment I think of the following two slow ones ( which reminded me why I had not responded more positively first time round ) . |
| 17 | Oh god Oh no wonder you say there 's us like eating cockles I suppose as the French eating snails int it ? |
| 18 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 19 | A suitably pedagogic figure called Skuul puts the case for cause and effect which is speedily reduced to relativism by an opposing voice : ‘ You pursue essentials I ride with the random … |
| 20 | The editor 's look suggests displeasure , but I am too elated to worry and with a skip I whirl into the revolving doors and out laughing into the night.But now , what a fiasco ! |
| 21 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 22 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 23 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 24 | ‘ Alec , ’ he had blubbered , pawing at his sleeve , ‘ yer the only true friend I have in the whole wide world . |
| 25 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 26 | In many ways I sympathize with the general tenor of this complaint , as may quickly become apparent . |
| 27 | These Golf tickets came in 1st and 2nd class as well , the example I have of the 1st class issue is No. 10 , hardly worth printing . |
| 28 | ‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’ |
| 29 | Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four . |
| 30 | Again I do n't want to be uncharitable but Cecil Parkinson I suspect in the public view is a man somewhat but not entirely without trace . |