Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If it is not permissible to take into account what was said by the Financial Secretary , I remain of the same view . |
| 32 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 33 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 34 | If I grumble about the last movement of the Tchaikovsky , I certainly would not complain about the delicacy of the pizzicato of the third movement . |
| 35 | I sit with the reeking instrument . |
| 36 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 37 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 38 | I sit on the lower deck with my soft holdall heavy at my feet , behind two laughing women from Jamaica swapping advice about knitting . |
| 39 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 40 | I sit on the wooden floor for a moment to gather my strength , also to decide exactly where I should take the relics to dispose of them . |
| 41 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 42 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 43 | After breakfast , I sit in the outgoing waiting-room , facing the door , with Jackie and the women of yesterday morning clutching their knees and their overnight bags , looking pale . |
| 44 | I sit in the same seat as before , just by the window . |
| 45 | Another says : ‘ I pray best when I sit before the Blessed Sacrament , or look at the Crucifix without saying anything — just being with the Lord . ’ |
| 46 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
| 47 | I smell like a major operation . |
| 48 | ‘ But will my lady allow me to share her bed tonight if I smell like an unwashed ram ? ’ |
| 49 | ‘ I would like to make clear the importance I attach to the continued availability of advice , from within and outside the NHS , in contributing to the development of the health service in Scotland , ’ said Lord Fraser . |
| 50 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 51 | There 's Albert he er , as though we down I expect up the other side . |
| 52 | And I sleep with the same Jew 's son , Ginny thought , whenever I can . |
| 53 | MAX : I sleep on the right-hand side of my particular bed . |
| 54 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 55 | I plug in the short-wave radio and tune it to the radio-microphone , then I leave the receiver on the table and walk out to stick the bug on the inside of the front door . |
| 56 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 57 | I say to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish and my hon. Friend the Minister that I do not see why British Rail , as ever , should be expected to bear the full cost . |
| 58 | I say to the hon. Member for Harrow , West that I think that the right hon. Gentleman 's words will have reached the chairman of the Audit Commission . |
| 59 | However , I say to the hon. Lady and to the alleged author of that statement that , frankly , I disagree . |
| 60 | I say to the hon. Gentleman , who is an Opposition Front Bench spokesman , that he must withdraw that comment . |