Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] i " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 2 | All through the African campaign I longed to hear from you , and found it hard at times to keep a stiff upper lip without your help . |
| 3 | That 's unusual is n't it , because I always think , I mean I , this is really only about the second watch I 've ever had good one . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 5 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 6 | I would like to thank you all for your presence — in both senses of the word , but especially for the smiling faces I see in front of me . |
| 7 | While Rosa Guy makes some parts of her book easy to understand , it was only after the second time I read the book that I was able to give unanswerable questions an answer . |
| 8 | I 've lost my job when money 's been tight , regardless of the good work I did and the commitment I showed . |
| 9 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |
| 10 | Along with the certain suggestion I enclosed the casket design and a typed selection of quotes from my letters approving the idea of ‘ over-the-counter coffins ’ and giving the address at which the originals could be inspected , in the time-honoured manner with unsolicited testimonials . |
| 11 | The aged , respectable leather-bound tomes of the Gould family library look down upon the nasty tale I have to tell with musty distaste . |
| 12 | At last she said slowly , ‘ Well , having done nothing but small-animal work for two years in London , I have to say that apart perhaps from the odd pony I never really considered anything else . |
| 13 | So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit . |
| 14 | This incident made me realise that our careful descriptions of the relationship between dialect and Standard English might be misread , and so in the final Report I insisted that we should reiterate many times that all pupils should learn , and if necessary be explicitly taught , Standard English . |
| 15 | So in the next chapter I shall look at the main strands of teaching in the Old Testament about the Holy Spirit , in the light of fuller perspective brought about by Jesus , the supreme bearer of the Spirit . |
| 16 | I 've even known her red , and that only in the eighteen months I 've worked for her . |
| 17 | All very worrying , especially since the only sleep I lost in the real Gulf War was in staying up listening to late-night doomsday discussions on Channel 4 . |
| 18 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 19 | In his usual way , as soon as the film started , George begin to give me a run down on the technical assets I might otherwise be missing . |
| 20 | He were n't all over the sixth form I 've not got a to live with ! |
| 21 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 22 | So on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing . |
| 23 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 24 | About eight o'clock on the eighth day I was told to pack my stuff up , because at seven o'clock the next morning I was going to Styal . |
| 25 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 26 | Tonight for the first time I was deeply worried after seeing the pictures of the attack on a civilian shelter . |
| 27 | As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ . |
| 28 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 29 | And I say can I go to Hertford please and they did n't ask me how old I was , they just like the next thing I knew I was whacked out this six hundred quid ticket . |
| 30 | You scare me , Folly — you 're not like the other women I 've known . |