Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 2 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 3 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 4 | I begin by welcoming the hon. Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) to the House . |
| 5 | I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Stockton , North ( Mr. Cook ) on becoming a grandfather again . |
| 6 | I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Gateshea East ( Ms. Quin ) on being successful in the ballot , on introducing such an important subject for debate and on doing it so well . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of thanks I get for doing a good deed , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Yet for all this , more co-ordinated machinery still has to emerge and I confess to experiencing a certain sour taste of insincerity when I hear educational leaders talking about promoting a relevant and dynamic curriculum for primary schools , yet notice that they are hastening most slowly in providing the assessment policy needed to enable this to happen . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe by forming a better definition of criminal record information , and with a better definition of criminal intelligence , we should be able to identify the middle grade which is called criminal information , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Everybody I talk to has a different version of Jim 's life . |
| 11 | ’ I 've reached the stage where I feel like saying no more interviews , ’ says the man who is S'Xpress . |
| 12 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 13 | As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official . |
| 14 | I come after finishing the domestic chores at home which is not far off . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't stay in the business as long as I have without learning a little bit about people . |
| 16 | And I mean , I wan na change the ten o'clock opening , it 's bloody silly is that ! |
| 17 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 18 | I wan na see the new one with Bridget Fonda Bridget Fonda |
| 19 | I wan na get a little Fiesta . |
| 20 | Henry : ‘ I WAN NA KILL THE WHOLE WORLD ! ’ |
| 21 | If you insist on wearing a made-up tie , wear a shirt with a turned-down collar , not a wing collar . |
| 22 | There was a tough little five-eighth — what you insist on calling a stand-off half — playing for Kempsey that day . |
| 23 | You insist on giving an experiential explanation of the meaning . |
| 24 | If you concentrate on maintaining the correct heading your feet will look after themselves . |
| 25 | Insulation : thermal underwear insulates , ie , keeps you warm by trapping a thin layer of air in its fibres , or between you and your clothes ( which is why almost any vest or body can be described as ‘ thermal ’ ) . |
| 26 | Certainly it 's the case that there 's a a down side if you like with providing the new roads through what is mostly open countryside . |
| 27 | They 've actually gone from a full service back to this level because this is what they 've found is what people need and obviously this is surely what we should be able to do , erm I think that you know by providing the extra ten thousand my concern now is that we actually make sure that our offices are fully covered here . |
| 28 | The computer asks you a question via a sound card and gives you a choice of options on screen , and you respond by pressing the relevant button . |
| 29 | If you think of phoning an old friend , do it ! |
| 30 | You start by entering a basic ‘ global ’ idea and break it down into smaller and smaller steps . |