Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holding the door handle , I savoured in advance the small luxury of waking him . |
| 2 | I do n't want to even think about the two mistakes I made at Wembley the last time against Spurs . ’ |
| 3 | And then , in the , I think it was the June , I came down to Colchester , and as soon as I got to Colchester the old adjutant nurse said oh you , going for a a B one qualification , and I had to go to Colchester to the Ordnance , it , it , it was an Ordnance workshops I suppose that was what it was . |
| 4 | and I say round Vauxhalls the only thing we did n't see at Vauxhalls was the er paint shop |
| 5 | I reapplied to Switchboard the next day . |
| 6 | In my report on the Money Advice Liaison Group conference ( ‘ Life beyond debt — a common goal ’ , Credit Management , May 1991 ) I described in detail the standard Financial Statement launched at that conference by Anthony Sharp of the CCTA . |
| 7 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 8 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 9 | I noted with envy the gold-embossed timber mansions of the merchants , the stalls in front of them piled high with goods of every kind : rich cloth of gold , rolls of murrey , silks and satins , leather bottles , Spanish riding boots , gold cord and testers , blankets of pure wool , and tapestries heavy with silver needlework and gold filigree . |
| 10 | In fact I suspect on June the ninth even the wipe out of the Conservative party in the European elections may make even those members that side think that in order to say their own skins in the future they will actually have to start to think about a fairer electoral system and indeed there will be a unified system on the way forced by Europe on this house if we do not take it upon ourselves to do so and it will be our own fault that we 've shirked our responsibilities in my view to actually take it on board . |
| 11 | My two weeks VR training finished , I returned to Blackpool the next day to start putting on the Ice Show at the famous Pleasure Beach — quite a change ! |
| 12 | When I returned by car the following October , I was at least ready for the place . |
| 13 | In about two weeks ' time not even that much , yeah about two weeks I suppose on May the ninth it 's my twentieth birthday . |
| 14 | ‘ I believed in what I was doing , ’ he told the lawyers , smarting at the implication that maybe he did n't ; ‘ Once I talked to Ollie the first or second time , man I believed . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't , I 'm going the wrong way , I 'm going the way when I go with Jim the quick way |
| 16 | With my husband 's increasing involvement with homoeopathy , I viewed with interest the impressive , but off-putting , tomes which contained the gems of homoeopathic philosophy and materia medica , but had no enthusiasm for taking up yet another area of study , and particularly not one as arduous as homoeopathy . |
| 17 | It 's funny , I thought about sweeteners the other day , I think it 's just as bad as sugar , I think . |
| 18 | I went to bed the other night . |
| 19 | ‘ Never been able to drink instant since I went to America the first time . |
| 20 | At the meeting er , of the Financial Resources Committee that I attended on Wednesday the first thing we discussed was the er the giving so far , up to the end of February from the various provinces and we , by the end of February er , the total was up to thirty thousand pounds less than we required er which could mean that the end of the year it could be a hundred and eighty thousand pounds less than required but er of all the |
| 21 | I leave on April the eighth , flying to London . ’ |
| 22 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 23 | When I spoke to Travis the other day I understood he 'd had a change of heart . ’ |
| 24 | I think at times the national health service has been exploited , you know , oh er I am no going out today , I 'm no feeling well . |
| 25 | Firstly , when one thinks about using computers in schools , one tends to think of technology , and you think of people with white coats and dials and sort of science and technology and so forth , whereas I think in schools the big interest is in using a microcomputer as a teaching aid and as a support to other services and other ways of doing things , so it is just as relevant in a primary school as a secondary school . |
| 26 | ‘ Look where it 's got us ! ’ — that was the assumption behind all I said at Diodati the other evening . |
| 27 | I mean really look I said to Fred the other day if you knew you were depressed . |
| 28 | he looks terrible actually I said to Dave the other week I said ai n't he lost weight , look at his face , he 's so thin |
| 29 | Another thing I said to Caliban the other day — we were listening to jazz — I said , do n't you dig this ? and he said , in the garden . |
| 30 | I ask these questions because of course article five of the treaty of Rome basis a burden on this court , it does n't er create rights in itself , I think everyone agrees with this , but it certainly er imposes a duty on this court erm to apply with er community laws , purposes and principals and I 'm wondering whether erm , that , that is why I 'm looking at the possible consequences of this er the inter relationship between the , for example , the directive and article eighty five , er and bearing in mind as I said to Mr the other day , the consequences erm of er these fees |