Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right answer I obtained out of Sir Ian Gilmour 's study of public violence in 18th-century England — a period which he takes literally , namely from 1701 to 1800 . |
| 2 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 3 | At the top of the dry valley I scramble down to the green path , following the old hedge of thorns and elders , pointing the way , beckoning me onwards as I descend the gently curving path down the rolling hillside . |
| 4 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 5 | That 's all the German cards I put down all my vocabulary . |
| 6 | I noted that in the detailed report I handed in later . ’ |
| 7 | Right erm a lot of good things there erm empathy is I think the second thing I wrote down on , on the strength , brilliant very see that obviously open up erm there was interest in what I was doing , you , you were confident . |
| 8 | The following weekend I dashed down to Bromley , Kent , to see my aunt . |
| 9 | The following day I signed up for an accountancy course as an ‘ extra option ’ . |
| 10 | When I returned from Sunday school the following Sunday I wrapped up in my scarf and tammy because it was a chilly day . |
| 11 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 12 | This all seemed ideal from everyone 's point of view so the following week I went along . |
| 13 | Er yes there the three things I got out of erm yesterday 's course was the thought patterns the Aldershot method and the delivery . |
| 14 | Where 's the scruffy page I tore out of that magazine at the dentist 's ? |
| 15 | During my spell on the late desk I went out on no fewer than eleven murders . |
| 16 | And then with shoulders bunched and my eyes on the messed pavement I shuffle off down the drinker , and sit with tankard and tabloid in the comer by the fire . |
| 17 | But the lying did n't help me in spite of the great performance I put on . |
| 18 | I sweated and strained with it , even in quite a light wind , and my hands grew warm despite the heavy-duty welding-gloves I had on . |
| 19 | The more people I get in and get involved in classes , the better it 's gon na look at the end of the year . |
| 20 | Back in the boiler-room with the ten-gallon bags I roll up my sleeves and rummage in heaps of bloody lint and plaster , cracked phials and syringes , crushed cultures . |
| 21 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 22 | At the first hotel I worked in , I had shared an ‘ office , with one other cleaner — a taciturn alcoholic who taught me how to keep my head down — but in my new job , there were five of us who shared the same poky little room . |
| 23 | Dawson originally trained in art and design at the London College of Furniture , ‘ because it was the first course I got on . ’ |
| 24 | Dawson originally trained in art and design at the London College of Furniture , ‘ because it was the first course I got on . ’ |
| 25 | Thus , in some of my own research into theatre audiences , at a time when virtually nothing was known about who goes to the theatre , some of the first surveys I carried out were concerned with eliciting data on people 's age , education , social class , who they went with , how they heard about the play , and so on . |
| 26 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 27 | Felt guilty as hell the first time I went on there ! |
| 28 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
| 29 | Cos th I remember the first time I went down that way over the bridge . |
| 30 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |