Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 2 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 3 | ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril . |
| 4 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 5 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 6 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 7 | I think that I put it the other way round last time . |
| 8 | I am not precisely sure that I know what the right hon. Gentleman had in mind on sentencing policy , but I am happy to engage in exchanges outside . |
| 9 | I am glad we have that partnership with all of you here and it is on that note , on behalf of the government , that I wish you every possible success as you embark upon your seventy fifth year . |
| 10 | Because we made love , because I 'm physically attracted to you , it does n't mean that I owe you an involved explanation of my private life . ’ |
| 11 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 12 | Choir night , so I get myself an early supper . |
| 13 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 14 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 15 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 16 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 17 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 18 | Once I know what the other operettas will be , I shall work with her every day . |
| 19 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 20 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 21 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 22 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 23 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 24 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
| 25 | They usually need to be cooked and I use them a great deal with beans and in Mexican dishes , slicing them before cooking . |
| 26 | For me there has always been — and I count it the greatest of all blessings — a window never finally blacked out , a light never finally extinguished . |
| 27 | At only 18 , Dundas will be seeing things through young and excited eyes and I wish him the best . |
| 28 | I was interested to hear the Hon. Gentleman raise the subject of the scanner proposal , and I wish it the best of success . |
| 29 | His name was Edward Greenwood , and as they all sat down , he said , ‘ I 've heard all about you from Helen and I wish you the best of luck . |
| 30 | And I kept it the same and that 's When we bought this in nineteen fifty four , there was a lot of alterations to be done . |