Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] i [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange advert I saw in the week it it was erm |
| 2 | And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman . |
| 3 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 4 | At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me . |
| 5 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 6 | Settling myself on the wooden bench I peered through the open slit . |
| 7 | And here 's an interesting thing I learned from the Independent on Sunday last weekend : as its correspondent David Lister put it , ‘ An international competition to find the best of the worst new verse has been wound up because poets on both sides of the Atlantic can no longer distinguish between ‘ good bad ’ poetry and ‘ bad good ’ poetry . ’ |
| 8 | The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’ |
| 9 | But whether man 's inward mind patterning , which provides him with the capacity for verbal language , is underlain by a subtle and universal language of meaning to which we all relate when using verbal language , is an interesting possibility I discussed in The Web of Life . |
| 10 | Like you , it 's high time I returned to the real world . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There 's some cold beef and a nice fresh loaf I brought from the bakers early this morning , ’ Letty said . |
| 12 | I want to concentrate on the week in Adelaide in January 1933 that brought it all to a head , and the personal dilemma I faced as the Teuter-Press Association correspondent . |
| 13 | Then the ginger kitten I hid in the garden shed and mother found it and there was a monumental scene and Helen called her a beast ; funny , I can hear it now , mother going on about the kitten and Helen suddenly exploding and mother 's face . |
| 14 | In the packed cathedral I looked past the broad , shining black plaits of the campesinas , the little , pert pigtails of the girls , up the aisle at the scarlet and gold draped Virgin , her arms outstretched in benediction beneath her gold pillared arch . |
| 15 | But the following morning I awoke to the familiar sound of Chola shouting at the dogs and the dogs ' yelping response . |
| 16 | Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang . |
| 17 | But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb . |
| 18 | No , his , his in the right place I suppose in the event of any thing happening are n't you . |
| 19 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 20 | As soon as the morning lessons were over and I had snatched a quick lunch I headed towards the village with my bag . |
| 21 | The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers . |
| 22 | She was not at all the uppity , self-important celebrity I read about the next day . |
| 23 | In an effort to develop a unique sound I stumbled across the very first pattern which I discovered I had never played before . |
| 24 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 25 | With monumental effort I crawled into the shower and soon began to feel better . |
| 26 | Like y'know we we 've mentioned organisational structure I think in the very first lecture er that idea , the idea that you 've got a kind of box at the top labelled president and you 've got two boxes underneath labelled vice president and you 've got y'know one box goes off to sales manager y'know the sort of thing I mean , okay ? |
| 27 | Lying flat , my naked chest against the cold concrete I fought with the thing till my eyes popped and my breath gave out , but it had not the slightest effect and it made my mind up ; I had to tell him . |
| 28 | However little time I spend at the front they do n't come in and get on with something , they come in and wait for me . |
| 29 | Sh and people here give her such a hard time I mean like the blokes are always say oh God , you know , that troll and everything but I |
| 30 | We 'll live happily and innocently together in a little white house I have in the south of France . |