Example sentences of "[adj] i [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 2 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
| 3 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 4 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 5 | Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck . |
| 6 | By this I mean those aspects of her I like least . |
| 7 | Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members . |
| 8 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 9 | This I did three times before getting in , largely on the strength of some Moroccan paintings I had recently completed . |
| 10 | In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes . |
| 11 | Doctor : ‘ I 'm afraid I have bad news for you Mr Bristow . |
| 12 | He stepped forward , said in a deep , smoky voice , ‘ Miss Swift , I 'm afraid I have bad news for you . |
| 13 | In April–May 1991 I spent 5 weeks in Japan , part of the time as a visiting teacher at Kyoto University . |
| 14 | Again , its looking like we might meet in London somewheres ( fortunate I live just 5–10mins from the M3 hehe ) , so London/southern dwellers might be OK , but eve if youre travelling from farther afield , we might all be able to meet somewhere and go in CONVOY , scarves a-fluttering out of windows and all that . |
| 15 | Lucky I had some biscuits in So whether it was er because my period started on Friday |
| 16 | I be lucky I get any bloke fer more'n two monfs togewer like my ol' lady I suppose an' if I get a bloke 'e 'll be aht a' work or 'e 'll set me ter the bleed'n game like 'er I would n't be surprised but if you reely want ter now jus ' fer now for this minute I wanner enjoy it . |
| 17 | Oh , er first of all I enjoyed that record of Adam Faith 's . |
| 18 | Erm they 're awfully difficult to cast because the art of bronze founding on that level is at least as far as I can see , almost died out , I 'm having terrible I 've terrible trouble with getting bronze cast . |
| 19 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
| 20 | I am sure I took great pains with you , alas , but to very little purpose . |
| 21 | Then I make sure I put enough money on the barclay card the day after it arrives |
| 22 | I made sure I had sufficient pellets in my jacket pockets , then headed out of the house for the Rabbit Grounds on the mainland , between the large branch of the creek and the town dump . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure I searched this part of the library before , ’ said Endill poking his head outside . |
| 24 | I 'm sure I have Etruscan blood in me . ’ |
| 25 | FIGURE 5 I add small slivers of light down the windows to show the sun coming in from the right ( when it 's out ! ) . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ To be safe I require two feet of water under the hulls . ’ |
| 27 | Yet unless such collaboration is forthcoming I see little hope of any genuine improvement in our education . |
| 28 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 29 | First I have some questions for you . |
| 30 | When you then look at the bits that are left over , erm we 've got Hambleton District Council which has er had the er er earliest I think local running down the centre of the county . |