Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Naturally , one desires to suppress the personal element so far as possible , but if one has an opinion to express there is nothing to offend anybody in a straightforward ‘ in my opinion . ’ |
2 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
3 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
4 | I got one with a big chunky battery , it should 've lasted about six month to a year |
5 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
6 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
7 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
8 | I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms . |
9 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
10 | But I want somebody in every one of those companies . |
11 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
12 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
13 | Unless I hear something from a Labour spokesman to suggest they have reasonable plans for single householders , I think many people will be deserting and voting Conservative . |
14 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
15 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
16 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
17 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
18 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
19 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
20 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
21 | I felt somewhat of a tragic character . |
22 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
23 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
24 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
25 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
26 | I said somebody like a middle-aged woman would be best who 's got grown up children at work |
27 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
28 | I said nothing for a few seconds . |
29 | I had one from an 80-year-old woman who had carried the secret all her life ’ . |
30 | Personally I had nothing but an overwhelming feeling of gratitude for whoever had made the attempt impossible . |