Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |
| 2 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 3 | After you calmly tell me that I walked through a fucking wall ! ’ |
| 4 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 5 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 6 | I should make it clear at the outset that I act as a parliamentary consultant to the Professional Association of Teachers and that much of what I shall say tonight will be based on the practical experience of PAT members . |
| 7 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 9 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was so overjoyed with the diagnosis that I celebrated with a huge meal , a bottle of champagne and a large cigar . |
| 12 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
| 13 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
| 14 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 15 | But almost immediately I ran into a new danger . |
| 16 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 17 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 18 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 22 | I was n't positive on this one , so I checked with a leading manufacturer who said it was not wise to mix , as the addition of stain could upset the drying time . |
| 23 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |
| 24 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 25 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 26 | My English travelling companion was game to try the dulse seaweed , which is a speciality in Ballycastle , so I went into a little shop on the seafront . |
| 27 | It got more painful — so I went to a different doctor , who said it was an infected sebaceous cyst and gave me stronger antibiotics . |
| 28 | I really had nothing useful to say , so I responded with a sympathetic noise that only made Robin-Anne shake her head impatiently . |
| 29 | We did n't think there was enough room for another member of the family , so I trained as a chartered accountant . ’ |
| 30 | Sergei draws black , so I open with a dull pawn to king four , which he mimics , as he does my next three moves . |