Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sense of disbelief grew when I realised what a truly wonderful prize I 'd won . |
| 2 | I found him a most agreeable man and we seemed to get along well from the start . |
| 3 | I found him a most agreeable man , a sharp observer , and the possessor of intellectual attainments of no mean order . |
| 4 | Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 5 | I found him a somewhat erratic personality and an occasional pain in the ass . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Whatever her failings may or may not be , I found her a most agreeable and willing chambermaid — very attractive for that occupation — far more attractive than the common run of girls , did n't you find ? ’ |
| 7 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 8 | And I found it a little strange they were suggesting that an alternative approach may be suitable here , particularly when th the evidence has n't been put forw or gone through the public consultation process . |
| 9 | I found it a rather disgusting product of a self-admitted drug damaged brain . |
| 10 | I found it a very compassionate account of the unrewarding role filled by many in today 's ever-divorcing society . |
| 11 | They behaved towards me as they would to anyone else and I found it a very valuable exposure . |
| 12 | Can I give them a more entertaining life indoors to stop them from going out so much ? |
| 13 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 14 | I showed him the continually growing pile of newspapers I was conscientiously accumulating in my sitting-room . |
| 15 | I owe you a very great personal debt . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Then I owe you the most sincere apologies , Sir James , ’ he commented . |
| 17 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 18 | I find it a rather jagged composition , certainly devoid of the warmth and innocence of ‘ Hatful Of Hollow ’ . |
| 19 | I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable . |
| 20 | I find it a little horrifying to think that some Commercial pilots flying large numbers of passengers may have had very little exposure to reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 21 | I find it a little difficult to take that kind of question from an hon. Gentleman who said that we ought to eat New Zealand apples and refuse to eat British sausages . |
| 22 | Speaking from NatWest 's experience of the DTI report on its role in Blue Arrow 's rights issue , Lord Alexander said : ‘ I find it a simply awful process that people of 40 years ’ experience should have to resign on the basis of judgments in the report without having the opportunity of going through the regulatory process that you in Parliament provided . ’ |
| 23 | I find it a more natural environment . |
| 24 | Personally I choose to travel by train , and am prepared to pay a higher fare to do so , because I find it a more comfortable , and usually more enjoyable mode of travel . |
| 25 | I find it a very useful thing , and I am as bad as the next person at chatting merrily away with little thought of time or the expense of it . |
| 26 | The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two . |
| 27 | Sleepily Adam whispered , ‘ I find it an extraordinarily erotic idea . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It had occurred to me that if the substance known as Potassium Chlorate were to be contained in some small vessel with the right quantity of Sulphur , and the compound impacted — that is to say , if I hit it a pretty fair whack with a pestle — the result would be an explosion . ’ |
| 29 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 30 | She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was . |