Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only lately , though , have I been able to get virtually one pulse through the entire work . |
| 2 | I am pleased to see so many of my colleagues here , including my hon. Friends the Members for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) , for Derby , North ( Mr. Knight ) and for Derbyshire , West ( Mr. McLoughlin ) and several other colleagues . |
| 3 | Now the King said , ‘ I am sorry to say as much before your lady , but it was by your wish that she stayed . |
| 4 | I am sorry to observe so little Care taken of the Education of our Youth designed for the Sea , even such as have a Prospect of commanding Ships either in the Government or Merchant Service : The element in which they live renders them rough and boisterous which makes a little Education more necessary to give them an early Byass . |
| 5 | I do hope that I am able to report thus next month . |
| 6 | I enjoy playing football and hockey especially but I am able to enjoy nearly any sport . |
| 7 | ‘ Any sponsor would have to realise that although I might lose an occasional race when I could have won , I am able to run far more races and to winy many , only because I do n't put myself under any pressure by expecting or even wanting to win . |
| 8 | The stress laid on the new Festival of Purification of the Temple favours a date in the late second century B.C. In other words , I am inclined to put both I and II Maccabees in the last decades of the second century B.C. , about forty or fifty years after the death of Antiochus IV in 164 B.C. The two main Jewish sources were written when Judaea had become an independent and expansionist state . |
| 9 | All this made for a disappointing start but I am happy to say that much else is on an altogether higher level . |
| 10 | I am happy to say that much progress has been made . |
| 11 | I am not expensive , and I am happy to take only 20,000 francs a month . |
| 12 | I am unable to see why equitable assignments , with this fall-back declaration of trust , ought to be treated in any way differently for compensation purposes than if in place of assignments there had been simple declarations of trust . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry to sound somewhat negative but I 'm sure you can understand my feelings . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry to ask so many questions , ’ Sabine said , after another pause . |
| 15 | Well I 'm delighted to see so many of you have taken the trouble to come and join us today for yet another annual public meeting and in welcoming you can I give a particular welcome to our new chairman Mike Betts , thank him very much indeed for joining us . |
| 16 | ‘ It may work out that I do n't get as many as last year , but I 'm happy to play up front and as long as Newcastle go on to win promotion it does n't really matter anyway , ’ said the converted midfield player who marked his 25th birthday with the 51st-minute opener . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm glad to see so many clowns here instead of where they should be — in Westminster or back in their constituencies , ’ quips Ron Moody , president of Clowns International , at the official opening of the European Clowns ' Convention on 21 March . |
| 18 | ‘ You say jump and I 'm supposed to ask how high ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm supposed to go in first thing in the mornings too , to light the stoves and dust round . ’ |
| 20 | I think I 'm entitled to feel rather bitter . ’ |
| 21 | I was anxious to avoid too lengthy a conversation with Roger . |
| 22 | I was pleased to see so many hearty workers thus earnestly labouring early in the day . |
| 23 | My spelling is still very slow , but I was pleased to see how much I was able to follow conversations . |
| 24 | After the super article on my lucky win , and desire to find a good retirement home for my 33-year-old A35 in the Spring 1991 issue of The Lifeboat , I was delighted to receive so many lovely letters from readers interested in taking over care of my dear little car . |
| 25 | I was delighted to learn recently that Arcam has announced that it will be the first British company in 10 years to make a cassette deck here in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | As I read it , I was sad to think how miserable Anne had been , in a big house away from home , where no one understood her . |
| 27 | I must admit I was surprised to see so many of the players finding the water on the 18th hole but that just shows how much pressure there is even for players who have won Major Championships and who have earned millions of dollars and pounds from their ability . |
| 28 | When Heathcliff entered the sitting-room , I was surprised to see how much he had changed . |
| 29 | Apart from the obvious benefits to those who , like myself , suffer with-gall stones , I was surprised to read so many other benefits to health that had been enjoyed by many volunteers . |
| 30 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the undoubted paranoia of the fanatical adherent of solar monotheism in ancient Egypt , the Pharaoh Akhenaten ( alias Amenhotep IV ) , but at that time I was unable to demonstrate how such paranoid tendencies were related to the evolution of cultivating societies . |