Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Sergei draws black , so I open with a dull pawn to king four , which he mimics , as he does my next three moves . |
| 13 | ‘ My mum 's brilliant and I go to a lovely young designer called Richard Kinlock , who 's superb . |
| 14 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 15 | I must explain that and I eat in a special compartment , screened from the other foreign friends , who pay for their own meals . |
| 16 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 17 | However , he and I differ in a fundamental way . |
| 18 | The fact of the matter is , as far as the erm and I accept to a certain degree what Jack has just said , that the power for schools lies with the Governors , and it lies with the Governors because the Conservative Government has enacted legislation to allow that to happen . |
| 19 | Oh , and I belong to a Young Wives ' group , we meet once a fortnight , and I see people from that quite often . |
| 20 | I live quietly now , but every year Fritz and I meet in a little town outside Ruritania . |
| 21 | to , to put reasons why that this does n't mean the it actually means more , and I think to a certain extent there may be justification , some people may have put their name down and meant the whole family |
| 22 | but were Scottish women and I think to a Scottish woman two thousand pounds , I , I mean I know a lot of Scottish women |
| 23 | " Basically this garden is blue and white and I think in a small garden one has to pay great attention to the colours , otherwise it can look an awful hotchpotch , " says Tricia . |
| 24 | But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in . |
| 25 | ‘ Communications officer on atomic submarine , ’ he says , and I see with a sudden , sickening clarity that he has forked my bishop and knight . |
| 26 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
| 27 | Paul and I converse with a lovely WPC . |
| 28 | If I point to a particular item in a room and say " that " , we can say that the demonstrative encodes distance from the origo , whether actual or mental , and the coincidence of indexical and symbolic meaning is only possible when we know what object is being pointed to . |
| 29 | They tell me if I walk in a certain direction for an hour I 'll come across a road and by the time I set my watch and compass they 've vanished over the dunes . |
| 30 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |