Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 2 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 3 | From the old way I took the track down to Whernside Manor and Deepdale Methodist Chapel , crossing the road there and taking the path through the woods where a millstone propped against a tree is all that remains of the old mill that once stood here . |
| 4 | During the warm weather I take the opportunity to sit in my garden where I often do my sewing up . |
| 5 | By the second treatment I knew the routine . |
| 6 | FOR TWO DAYS I WENT ABOUT RACKING MY BRAINS FOR A PLOT OF ANY SORT ; – ON THE SECOND NIGHT I DREAMED THE SCENE AT THE WINK ) W , AND A SCENE AFTERWARD SPLIT IN TWO , IN WHICH HYDEPURSUED FOR SOME CRIME , TOOK THE POWDER AND UNDERWENT THE CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS PURSUERS . |
| 7 | While Rosa Guy makes some parts of her book easy to understand , it was only after the second time I read the book that I was able to give unanswerable questions an answer . |
| 8 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 9 | In the following discussion I take the position that there are present in every social system both objective and subjective elements , objective structures and conscious social action ; and that any realistic political analysis requires an investigation of these two elements and their interrelations . |
| 10 | The following morning I put the loose pieces in my bag and took them to school . |
| 11 | At the top of the grassy embankment I check the street scene outside . |
| 12 | ‘ The previous season I missed the last 12 games through a hernia operation and Achilles tendon trouble . |
| 13 | The previous evening I used the amp in a very large club as my own backline monitor , with a line out to the PA . |
| 14 | You have the hard job I have the easy job . |
| 15 | ‘ Rosie , ’ the wild man called and the little girl I bought the heather from came out of the caravan , ‘ riddle me the Gorgios . ’ |
| 16 | In the tabloid press I became the villain who put his knife into Noddy and his boot into Biggles . |
| 17 | I think at the time of the er , of the A G M , I said we were pleased by the prospects and in the current statement I say the outlook continues promising , but I do n't think at any point we 've made more of a forecast than that . |
| 18 | Mine itches the very moment I see the ruddy school letter . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ The more publicity I get the better . |
| 20 | ‘ The more champagne I drank the better I understood his strong Scottish accent . |
| 21 | The more work I make there the more reason I research the geography , social history , climate , agriculture , literature , music , painting and individuals associated with it . |
| 22 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 23 | In the profound silence I surveyed the awesomely beautiful Himalayan landscape . |
| 24 | On the first day I pass the acid Fitzgerald test . |
| 25 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 26 | About fifty feet from the first tent I turned the van around and pulled it slightly off the track . |
| 27 | The serial strategy involved thinking of or placing your finger on an imaginary scale and moving backwards and forwards along that scale as adjectives were successively read out until a final impression was reached ; ‘ after the first adjective I rated the person in my head , then moved backwards or forwards along the scale after each attribute ’ or ‘ 1 . |
| 28 | The first time I visit the Ladies ' Pond , I exclaim to Kelly , ‘ It 's like a Fellini film , ’ to which she says in a lazy Scottish brogue , ‘ Perhaps … |
| 29 | Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ? |
| 30 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |