Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] things i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four months I spent there were really one of the best things I 've ever done . |
| 2 | His speech was one of the best things I have heard . |
| 3 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 4 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 5 | ‘ One of the first things I had to learn by heart when I went to Maythorpe House was a poem by an Englishman , Laurence Binyon . |
| 6 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 7 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 8 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 9 | ‘ One of the many things I do n't understand is why Riddle was so generally disliked , even hated . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's one of the many things I acquired a taste for at school . |
| 11 | You should see her doing her impersonation of him ; one of the funniest things I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 12 | It 's one of the funniest things I 've heard for Oh , minutes ! |
| 13 | One of the other things I found that people are conflicting in the paper erm is of people having to travel further erm if I can just yes , on pa , on page three , paragraph this is the choice that seems of the area and the travel and on page four , paragraph one the version says that local people will still get a choice of i in the London hospitals . |
| 14 | Well just It 's one of the other things I was gon na a It 's still about the farm actually , I was gon na ask er about things like H your tasks your was there anything like things like the harvesting would you have people coming in to help you ? |
| 15 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 16 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 17 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 18 | One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And . |
| 19 | One of the last things I was able to do was to help in the preparations for a Service of Reconciliation to be held at the Burma end of the Burma-Siam railway line , both in the preparation of the details of the service and the plans for its publicity . |
| 20 | One of the last things I 've written — it 's not finished yet — but the first line is , ‘ I 'm in love with my wife ’ and I probably would n't have written that two years ago . |
| 21 | I know it 's one of the last things I 'd would |
| 22 | He described criticism of Alex James in his first weeks with the club as ‘ one of the meanest things I have ever known ’ because it was made before James had time to adjust to the midfield linking role . |
| 23 | That is , if you 're concentrating and observing , which is one of the cardinal things I 've already mentioned . |
| 24 | So how did Tony manage to gain the confidence of the dealers , ‘ It took at least two or three weeks before I took my camera out and that was probably one of the hardest things I did . |
| 25 | One of the vital things I had to do — and I was too tired to help him myself — was to keep Jimbo occupied . |
| 26 | One of the bizarre things I find today is that England does n't really like traders . |