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Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	In particular , it is necessary to pay close attention to the relationship of civil society ( within which I will include much of what I mean by a specific urban culture ) and state forms and processes , in a context of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ .
2	I certainly do n't want to do that , I want to a wealthy old man .
3	It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it .
4	er I know I look like a real goody goody and everything I 'm not really !
5	Please , said a friend of this journal , egged on I suspect by a green-fingered two-year-old son , will you put in a word for the worm ?
6	Sorry I sound like a right right one but it does .
7	I sound like a soppy young kid , do n't I ?
8	Please hear my plead From a fellow human being with just one need ; After working all week on little pay I look forward to Saturdays so can watch my team play .
9	Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’
10	I feel like a damn old woman .
11	I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton .
12	‘ I feel like a walking wounded , ’ he said .
13	Towards dawn I turn into a fat pale moth
14	‘ My mum 's brilliant and I go to a lovely young designer called Richard Kinlock , who 's superb .
15	I go to a charming Chinese lady acupuncturist and although I detest needles I found it painless and relaxing and it helped me tremendously before and after the operations .
16	So now if I need a ‘ new ’ piece of equipment I go to a reputable second-hand wood working machinery dealer .
17	And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be .
18	As you say , I live in a cold grey city where few people care . ’
19	‘ Sometimes , ’ she said , ‘ I sink into a grand black horror of depression , but I do n't cry so much then .
20	The next fallacy that causes some confusion in the discussion is the persistence of what I regard as a narrow outdated approach to the notion of sovereignty .
21	‘ I come from a great medical mafia , most of my relatives are medically involved one way or another , ’ she told David Frost yesterday , adding that none of her family have private health insurance .
22	I work for a national voluntary youth work agency .
23	I work for a large cosmetic surgery company in England
24	Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office .
25	Too often some of our Catholic families are not aware of the existence of our excellent senior schools which provide for a solid Catholic education and a growth in faith for our children .
26	‘ Even as angels go , these seem a little unconvincing , airborne cherubs which seem like a bad special effect or a funerary monument that 's suddenly taken flight ’ .
27	Another form of fascination is to concentrate on the hypnotic spiral , which is a large disc bearing black lines which disappear to a single central point .
28	Just as linguistics is not primarily concerned with individual utterances ( parole ) but with the language system as a whole ( langue ) , the structuralist proposal is that individual works should be regarded as instances of parole informed by rules which belong to a general literary langue .
29	The ideas which come from a good theoretical understanding form hypotheses , and this concept is our next subject of study .
30	And I think that quite clearly proves that what you need to do is a detailed evaluation of all these criteria , all of them which reflect as a appropriate strategic guidance , to come er er to a balanced view .