Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first year in-country I was not employed . |
| 2 | There 's going to be a competition for the best alternative verse I think . |
| 3 | particularly in Norton were affected very badly , so you do support the ban on the ten on the A ten eighty eight and we do support an extension of that date , I 'm not happy about the six month extension I would be much happier with the three month extension , I think the people in |
| 4 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 5 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 6 | Alan Bates stars as a middle-aged illustrator going through the worst mid-life crisis I have ever witnessed . |
| 7 | Mystified , I took off the small velvet beret I was wearing and , miraculously , the vast hall was quiet , and I learned that the chant had been Cha-peau ! |
| 8 | THE first week of the general election campaign I spent carefully observing election coverage on television . |
| 9 | On behalf of the Central Executive Council I second the special report on sectional and industrial conferences . |
| 10 | Dammit , it 's the future of the European components business I 'll be talking about . ’ |
| 11 | At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up . |
| 12 | And in fact by the end of the one hour lesson I was almost up to something approaching parallel turns . |
| 13 | The description by Jill Tweedie of the organic sheep farmer I was travelling to meet bounced from the page : ‘ This once respectable female stripped off and began sitting around in front of cameras with her legs apart and her hands in unmentionable places . ’ |
| 14 | I went down the steps at the sign of the big neon M. I put a five-copeck piece into the automatic entrance which wo n't prevent non-payers travelling but buses in order to embarrass them . |
| 15 | As a member of the Scottish Sports Council I was closely involved in setting up arrangements for access to rivers . |
| 16 | 1985 was special for me — as one of the National Display Team I took part in the CCPR celebrations at the Royal Albert Hall , and later in that year I successfully completed the Medau Teacher Training Course . |
| 17 | Furthermore , as mentioned above , Article 36 of the 1977 Geneva Protocol I imposed a duty on states to consider in the development or acquisition of new weapons whether their use would be illegal in some or all circumstances . |
| 18 | Despite the small entrance hole I could sense the presence of the huge chamber below , up which faint voices were drifting . |
| 19 | I drank nothing at lunch , despite the horrendous Malvinas Surprise I ordered ( a triple mixed grill swaddled in steaks ) . |
| 20 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 21 | It 's one hell of a boring conversation man I 'm turning this cr shit thing off . |
| 22 | I turned away and in the black emptiness of a switched-off video screen I caught sight of my own reflection . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're a fool , I thought differently of you , but you 're nothing but a fool , a lovesick fool , like every other idiot girl I 've known . |
| 24 | Like an overgrown Bisto kid I sniffed and aaahed my way to the source of the oaky-smokey smell , where I met a man whom I am very pleased to know . |
| 25 | I am heading for a wilding apple tree I discovered last year — sniffed out , actually , since its lemon-yellow fruits smelt deliciously of quince and scented the air for dozens of yards around . |
| 26 | As a keen watersports enthusiast I was greatly alarmed to read in your news pages about the high quantities of toxic algae currently present in many of our inland waterways . |
| 27 | As a seasoned business traveller I am constantly amazed at all the lost opportunities to build customer loyalty . |
| 28 | When I worked as a primary school teacher I sometimes retrieved that feeling with a particular clarity , walking between the tables on the hard floor , all the little looms working but needing my constant adjustment . |
| 29 | As a long-time Japan watcher I am continually surprised by the Japanese capacity for tolerance and forgiveness of both private and public infractions . |
| 30 | I first recall the line in 1959 when as a young boy scout I was taken to camp at Pont-y-Pant . |