Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb base] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Sergei draws black , so I open with a dull pawn to king four , which he mimics , as he does my next three moves . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then we 're sending a letter which erm , well let me just say , we are then also sending , now here with the D I Y , the numbers er coincide Here the numbers coincide with the illustrations , so if I talk about a certain you have to look at paper one , paper two paper three or A B C. And you see what they look like . |
| 13 | ‘ Because I come from a booky family , in some ways I 've taken writing for granted — it 's like coming from a family of butchers and going into the meat trade . |
| 14 | I do n't do many presentations mainly because I work in a small team |
| 15 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 16 | When I come across a new metaphor , one that stretches my understanding , I feel cold . |
| 17 | There are a few minutes , perhaps not more than three or four , when I exist in a bewildering storm of hope , joy , incomprehen-sion and dread , when they do n't find the body at the bottom of the shaft . |
| 18 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 19 | The first thing 1 demand when I move into a new office is one soft chair for myself and another for my visitors . |
| 20 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 21 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 22 | And their of first office as I recall as a little boy , was on the q quay as we used to say in Porthmadog . |
| 23 | ‘ I have a year-old little boy and I get very bored sometimes , even though I go to a mother-and-toddler group now and again . |
| 24 | ‘ I look forward to seeing you again soon , though I hope on a social rather than a professional basis . ’ |