Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 2 | I asked how the financial problems afflicting the charity had come about ? |
| 3 | When I asked how the Public Accounts Committee could examine what I regarded as gross excesses and a gross dereliction of duty by the Secretary of State for Transport , I was told — quite properly that the PAC could investigate only specific charges . |
| 4 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 5 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 6 | I mean even the simple things , the hard data like annual mileage , is clearly an area of debate because you and Cynthia would argue different points you know . |
| 7 | I mean certainly the social services now divide up a bit . |
| 8 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 9 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
| 10 | And I bring back the livin' herbs , some overproof rum , some italvital dubplates and some duty-free ribbed condoms . |
| 11 | ‘ I fear somewhat the same circumstances . ’ |
| 12 | I make out the sunk foundations |
| 13 | I got quite a few things in there . |
| 14 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 15 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 16 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 17 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 18 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 19 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 20 | Peach leaves being unavailable in my strip of London back garden , I used instead a few drops of real almond essence , towards the end of the cooking , when the juice and sugar are on the boil . |
| 21 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 22 | I put away the few clothes I had brought , together with photos of Mother and Father , and another one — a head and shoulders portrait of Clare , looking happy and unconcerned about her legs . |
| 23 | I count again the different growths : Hosta , Ehryngum , Thalictrum , giddy lupin , Astilbe , goldenrod . |
| 24 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 25 | ‘ At first I was the only guest wearing it , but I noticed quite a few others following suit . ’ |
| 26 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 27 | ‘ I buy two ounces and I save only a hundred pounds . |
| 28 | I Pressed home the usual arguments about duty and not fighting the war for the privilege of going to the cinema . |
| 29 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 30 | I know where a barn-owl nests and where |