Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 2 | Well I tend to move in the same fleet . |
| 3 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 4 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 5 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes I forget to put in the right things . ’ |
| 7 | What I want to explore in the next chapter , then , is the question of the cultural boundaries between different subjects . |
| 8 | The particular case which I want to develop in the next chapter is that those strategies that involve sustained denial of or inattention to personal ideas , values , philosophy and vision , are bad strategies . |
| 9 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 10 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 11 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 12 | Lineker was disappointed and said : ‘ The funny thing is , against Sweden was the best I 'd felt in the whole tournament . ’ |
| 13 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 14 | Such is the burden of what I hope to argue in the next chapters . |
| 15 | My records indicate that I am now holding on to two , one of which I hope to use in the Annual Report . |
| 16 | But , as novelists are well aware , it is true , as I hope to show in the final chapter , that houses have an autonomous being of their own : ‘ I 've no control over the saucy things , ’ Margaret Schlegel complains in Howards End , ‘ Houses are alive . ’ |
| 17 | I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class . |
| 18 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 19 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 20 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 21 | everything 's closed up , I love to walk in the nude |
| 22 | In fact I think the people who are looking in the direction of change in terms of parent governors and P T As etcetera are , I think looking in the wrong direction . |
| 23 | If I decide to remove all the fish but the brichardi , how many resultant pairs of offspring should I allow to breed in the same tank as the parents ? |
| 24 | I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’ |
| 25 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 26 | M. Chaillot was by now unexpectedly by my side , opening a huge satin-covered box of chocolates of the cream-filled variety I had seen in the local shop . |
| 27 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 28 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 29 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 30 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |