Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |
| 2 | But almost immediately I ran into a new danger . |
| 3 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 4 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 8 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 9 | I was n't positive on this one , so I checked with a leading manufacturer who said it was not wise to mix , as the addition of stain could upset the drying time . |
| 10 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |
| 11 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 12 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 13 | My English travelling companion was game to try the dulse seaweed , which is a speciality in Ballycastle , so I went into a little shop on the seafront . |
| 14 | It got more painful — so I went to a different doctor , who said it was an infected sebaceous cyst and gave me stronger antibiotics . |
| 15 | I really had nothing useful to say , so I responded with a sympathetic noise that only made Robin-Anne shake her head impatiently . |
| 16 | We did n't think there was enough room for another member of the family , so I trained as a chartered accountant . ’ |
| 17 | Sergei draws black , so I open with a dull pawn to king four , which he mimics , as he does my next three moves . |
| 18 | I spent the first eighteen months working in all the factory departments , so I started with a good knowledge of precisely how the product was made and did all the jobs that then existed in the production of confectionery . |
| 19 | When my mother separated from my father in April 1981 I wanted to afford my father the security of a home so I entered into a verbal agreement to allow him to stay in the house during his lifetime and described this as a life tenancy on form ‘ Stamps L(A)451 ’ . |
| 20 | Once I ran at a fair in the noise |
| 21 | Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts . |
| 22 | If I point to a particular item in a room and say " that " , we can say that the demonstrative encodes distance from the origo , whether actual or mental , and the coincidence of indexical and symbolic meaning is only possible when we know what object is being pointed to . |
| 23 | Steven suggested Spenser and Shakespeare , with perhaps Scott and Hardy , and if I insisted on an up-to-date author , William Goulding . |
| 24 | I do n't think I 'd want it in the house , it might be confusing if I walked into a gloomy room with it |
| 25 | ‘ If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’ |
| 26 | They tell me if I walk in a certain direction for an hour I 'll come across a road and by the time I set my watch and compass they 've vanished over the dunes . |
| 27 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 28 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 29 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 30 | If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time . |