Example sentences of "[adj] i [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry I had to throw old Rex to the wolves back there , ’ he said , without a trace of conviction . |
| 2 | that out there it is because at the back of my shed , I want to do some I want to tidy that area up . |
| 3 | In Chapter 10 I try to make some suggestions about the form and content of a practical politics of reproduction which could help in the mobilization of the social forces necessary for the implementation of a programme of structural social change . |
| 4 | How is style related to use cos the thing is it is really glib I think to say modern architecture 's crap . |
| 5 | By factual I mean to question those aspects of us which no longer involve philosophical and theological questions which occupied our ancestors . |
| 6 | My conviction is to stay here , to love this country ( which I have found — in spite of its beauty and its sunshine — hard to love ) , and to give all I have to help these people find their miracle — for the sake of the rest of Africa . |
| 7 | He says ; Up and downstairs it is terrible I have to have two bars to pull me up and some people have to change to flats . |
| 8 | I opted for the neckband , as I usually do , because I like to do these double , so if the front bands go on first I have to do two buttonholes on the double fabric of the neckband . |
| 9 | And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations . |
| 10 | Somehow or other I managed to learn these lessons , becoming anxious to please and to be praised for having pleased . |
| 11 | Third I want to tackle real need . |
| 12 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |