Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 2 | I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat . |
| 3 | NOT and I repeat NOT the main carriage , as someone I know once did ! |
| 4 | Well I suppose you see maybe what they 're trying to do I mean as far as I know I mean previously the Inland Revenue or the valuation office part of the Inland Revenue they actually used to run a scheme where |
| 5 | I mean even the highest spirit of Reason which , according to Nicholas of Cusa , guards the gate in the wall around Paradise — a wall which is built of contradictions . |
| 6 | I mean erm presumably I mean obviously the local authority has its own people |
| 7 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 8 | I mean deliberately the actual community itself was set up , so it does have representation from the , the community . |
| 9 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 10 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker it 's also quite important that I make clear the Labour party 's position in respect to the article which calls for uniform electoral procedures to be set up for elections to the European parliament . |
| 11 | ‘ I make always the same thing , corsets etc . |
| 12 | The more work I make there the more reason I research the geography , social history , climate , agriculture , literature , music , painting and individuals associated with it . |
| 13 | Now that 's much easier to do it on paper than if I say well the only way to find is let's get sixty pennies out , you count sixty I 'll count another sixty then we 'll see how many we 've got . |
| 14 | To improve the quality of our work , these are erm , when I say though the current position is the technical quality is variable , these this assessment comes from internal reviews which are carried out and we have annual quality control reviews in all parts of the of the practice and the answers that have been come back coming back from those quality control reviews have and they 're pretty strict reviews it seems , strictly in accordance with the book , strictly in accordance with all the reg rules and regulations and , so if one has deviated from those and it 's hardly surprising how very high standards B S five seven five O would have , be quite easy to obtain in most of our practice areas , so it 's hardly surprising that there will be occasions when we do n't actually er come up with ten out of ten on a on an assignment . |
| 15 | I gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |
| 16 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 17 | I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
| 18 | I put down the empty can . |
| 19 | I walk round the rocky coast , clambering over many walls , and am baited by three small boys . |
| 20 | I walk down the real staircase , but I know , like Lot 's wife knew , that everything is crumbling to a smoke screen behind me , the urge to look back slaps at my face , but there has been enough powder to nothing in my life . |
| 21 | I walk down the broadest thoroughfare on the island , that which leads to the harbour . |
| 22 | I walk down the steep flight of stairs . |
| 23 | I look round the old place ; the window surrounds have been painted , the flower-beds look a bit unkempt . |
| 24 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
| 25 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 26 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 27 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 28 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
| 29 | I know where the hired help lives … ’ |
| 30 | Sales of her autobiography , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , and of Maya Angelou : Poems have enjoyed an enormous boost . |