Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 2 | Now the Times has never asked me to write a leading article announcing that I have some doubts about the quantum theory |
| 3 | They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building . |
| 4 | As Glumdalclitch was ill , I asked a young servant to take me down to the beach for some fresh air . |
| 5 | When recently I asked an enthusiastic practitioner to test the technique in maths , although they were themselves enthusiastic about language , I received confirmation of insecurity , of a self-confessed distraction from the task of teaching in favour of essentially a technician-type reliance on the scheme , and a domination of the teacher by the process of recording progress . |
| 6 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 7 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 8 | Following the recent court ruling in Scotland in which a golfer who hit another man with a golf ball was ordered to pay substantial damages , I overheard the following conversation taking place in the clubhouse . |
| 9 | I despise the theological problem posed by the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ , the sanctification of ‘ Guernica ’ , the violent controversy surrounding ‘ Guernica ’ , the Last Supper status accorded to ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 10 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 11 | An off night , I assured him , as we re-traced our twenty-mile drive to Palm Beach , where Robin wrapped himself in a blanket in front of the TV , soothing his cold turkey by watching videos of the local comedians , while I made a mental note to move my life and family to a flat above 42nd Street . |
| 12 | I made a mental note to ask about that . |
| 13 | I made a mental note to ask for an application form on the way out . |
| 14 | I made a mental note to make sure I got put on his side . |
| 15 | I made a mental note to seek revenge at the earliest opportunity . |
| 16 | I made a mental effort to visualise his new house , to create some mind picture , but gave up after a few seconds . |
| 17 | At one point I made a straightforward attempt to discover what principles were followed in the amalgamation of libraries which clearly would have involved duplication and manifold reasons for legitimate dispersals . |
| 18 | ‘ I made a conscious decision to go out as much as possible when I had the baby , ’ she says , ‘ because I knew the walls would close in on me if I did n't . |
| 19 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 20 | I made an immediate resolution to give Aunt Hettie 15 bob of that each Friday night . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ I 'm happy I made the right decision to go back . |
| 22 | The 24-year-old star could have left in the summer but insisted : ‘ I know I made the right decision to stay . ’ |
| 23 | Loose props tended to fall out with a movement of the window , so I devised a fixed prop using a crab clamp and a small batten . |
| 24 | Yes I I would agree with that but I wondered , I think perhaps it should be the finance committee , I mean cos I understood that most of these these items are contained within the existing budget , because I mean the individual committees do have have the power to the monies within their own , and I it has it I would agree with Peter that if we have gone over and above the that the committee were working to but I understood that that was not the case , so I . |
| 25 | I mean the only way measure it I suppose is by talking to them . |
| 26 | go to prison is , I mean the only people to go to mountain er was Nepal and they left in Wales and there they orin a region is from making |
| 27 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 28 | Yeah , but I mean the bright ones do the the bypass sheet they have the fractions one , and they |
| 29 | I mean the Methodist Church has launched six new liturgies for communion , as experiments to see how people react to them . |
| 30 | taking it seriously I mean the whole thing trying to get in my bed . |