Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when they phone up your girls and they say oh I I 've seen this promotion about a cordless phone I want the girls to ask where where did you hear about it ? |
| 2 | As a wee boy I knew the jargon of the Ayrshire pits , names and terms incomprehensible to the uninitiated . |
| 3 | At a later date I bought the place and built on wings to make the necessary accommodation . |
| 4 | She totally childish and not something that somebody in the twentieth century should waste their waste , their time with , and for a brief moment I felt the moral force of Sigmund Freud as through his daughter and of course psychologically this makes sense because I 'm quite sure her superego was modelled on her father 's . |
| 5 | And after a speedy search I found the drawer where she kept all her gym knickers . ’ |
| 6 | Since the birds were in a cold room I believe the filter matting provided extra protection from the low temperatures . |
| 7 | With a little imagination I envisaged the hopes and fears , and the overwhelming horrors these young men had to face . |
| 8 | With an inward smile and a mental sigh I retrieved the compass carefully from my pocket and took a bearing on north . |
| 9 | Now as a traditional climber I find the emergence of these new activities such as sport abseiling and sport climbing somewhat sterilised and regulated , but I suppose there is plenty of room in Britain for all offshoots and variations of the parent activity , and we must accept these developments with open arms as we did bolts and competitions . |
| 10 | It 's a good job I took the dog out this morning cos it ai n't fit to take a dog out . |
| 11 | All sounds from outside were muffled because of the dock being partly below ground level , set into the slope of the bank , but in a short while I heard the sound of a car door slamming and after that the noise of an engine starting up and being driven away . |
| 12 | ‘ When I came to Cambridge University as a mature student I joined the chapel choir and was glad of the opportunity of the tour to develop and strengthen the connections which already existed , ’ she said . |
| 13 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . |
| 14 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . ’ |
| 15 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 16 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 17 | Let us imagine that I have the misfortune to be born or to have settled in Portugal ; being an enlightened philosopher I dislike the institutions there ; should I try to change them by political subversion ? |