Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While you 're in the bathroom I insist on making that drink . |
| 2 | ‘ I insist upon hearing this limerick , ’ Miss Honey said , smiling one of her rare smiles . |
| 3 | After all , I put of starting this essay until five minutes ago . |
| 4 | I hope in discussing this question to try to examine , as frankly and fairly as possible , the relationship between legality on the one hand , and political organisation and political struggle on the other , in relation to this most vital of all issues for the survival of the human race , the control and elimination of nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | In the following sections , I begin by discussing Buid attitudes toward aggression and its opposite , tranquillity , in the daily life of the community . |
| 6 | I begin by reminding hon. Members of the reforms that the Minister has brought back to the House . |
| 7 | I begin by identifying those objectives which — I hope he agrees — the hon. Gentleman and his party share . |
| 8 | I read on paying great attention , trying to find out what he meant . |
| 9 | And so I resort to buying bottled water . |
| 10 | Even if the patient is compulsorily admitted under the Mental Health Act , and can therefore be deprived of his liberty , there is no authority that I know of to justify medical treatment against his express refusal . |
| 11 | ‘ Sunstroke is the likeliest diagnosis , but I believe in taking great care not to jump to conclusions . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe in putting common stuff next to rarer things . |
| 13 | We have enough racing in this country and I believe in reserving one day at least for the Lord . |
| 14 | ‘ For one thing , I believe in letting dead bones lie still . |
| 15 | I suppose in asking that question I 've got to ask you to rule out er all transactions er which have sort of transacted through New York and London at the same , or , or at different times , because quite clearly the Good Committee would er all their suggestions would fail on that behalf You 've just destroyed the question I was going to ask you really before I got to the question . |
| 16 | I du n no if I feel like doing this shit . |
| 17 | I think about buying some fags but the headache 's still there behind my eyes and I have the feeling smoking a cigarette would make me want to throw up . |
| 18 | I think about making some coffee , but I do n't bother in the end — it ai n't worth it just for me . |
| 19 | But I think in seconding this motion I think it 's a way forward and I think it 's better late than never I think what it talks about that we would not be here today Mr Chairman if this would have been agreed by what was put by the officers two and half years ago . |
| 20 | I think in assessing this criteria chairman , you you 've got to make a distinction between the N R A responsibilities and the Water Company responsibilities . |
| 21 | I 've of watching brief jobs for which we are not responsible . |
| 22 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
| 23 | There is no space to tell you of the depth of fellowship I am experiencing , of the great joy I have in teaching such folk , of all I am learning from these believers who have suffered so much , of the hardening opposition by the Orthodox Church , of the great work being done by the Baptists among Bulgarian orphans and of the plans for an orphanage , school and seminary . |
| 24 | What made this interesting is that the company I work for has considerable knowledge in this area . |
| 25 | You should have been a guerrilla leader , Sara , you delight in winning small skirmishes . " |
| 26 | The statement of compliance with the Cadbury code will be reduced to the anodyne stuff you read about employing disabled people in directors ' reports . |
| 27 | Cos you know about avoiding changing printers . |
| 28 | quote them a couple of hours , we drop the normal rate , you know by say thirty percent to start |
| 29 | ( Once you get beyond knitting all-over Fair Isle , this is n't difficult to understand , because for some stitches — tuck and lace for example — the point cams are positioned two stitches in from the edge of the knitting , in order to stop pattern knitting short of the edges . |
| 30 | Even when you succeed in producing desired results , periodically review your own actions and list what you could have done better . |