Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | But it 's sad really because I mean does all sorts of things with them which |
| 3 | By factual I mean to question those aspects of us which no longer involve philosophical and theological questions which occupied our ancestors . |
| 4 | WITH over 100 others from various parts of Britain , I planned to visit many sites of historical interest and biblical fame . |
| 5 | I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes . |
| 6 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 7 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 8 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 9 | I cry to release huge waves of feelings which can build up , especially when I can not or dare not put feelings into words . |
| 10 | With the help of Tony Wedd and Egerton Sykes I tried to contact surviving members of the Straight Track Club . |
| 11 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 12 | It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to see this bit of paper — if it exists . |
| 14 | If there are any factual errors ( or , more likely , lies ) I want to take careful note of them , and correct the record later . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to take this opportunity of thanking you , Mr … , and all the doctors and nurses here who have shown so much kindness to me . |
| 16 | Their taunts must have sickened her , so this ai n't the time to start mauling — even though I 've got a bulge in my pants like a bunch of bananas and I want to rip that nightdress of her and throw her on the bed . |
| 17 | ‘ Harry , ’ he said , ‘ I want to finish this portrait of Dorian today . |
| 18 | But I want to put another point of view . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to test one set of certainties by opposing them to another . |
| 20 | But because I do not want to get led off into a critical discussion of the issues , I want to keep this part of the book as clear as possible of content , and keep focusing on process . |
| 21 | I want to get some feel of how serious it is . |
| 22 | I do not support the new clause , but I want to bring one aspect of it to my right hon. Friend 's attention . |
| 23 | Here , I want to identify one feature of that relationship which seems to me to be crucial in understanding generic transformation in television , and the specific and different forms it takes in the US and the UK : the organization of the schedule . |
| 24 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 25 | And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations . |
| 26 | Well , whether they have to in France or not , but I want to know , as a person , whether I am French , English or whatever , I want to know that kind of . |
| 27 | Can we not reach conclusions today which I sense has some possibility of consensus ? |
| 28 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 29 | If I 'd wanted that kind of wife , I 'd have married Eleanor . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |