Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aha That 's right , it would be somebody of one rung down perhaps from and half a rung down from if you can put that in context I mean is an absolute beginner she knew nothing about this business two and a half years ago |
| 2 | The sort of shade I mean is the dappled shade cast by mature apple trees and maples or by the high branches of an oak . |
| 3 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 4 | ‘ I liken being a creative music person to going to see a football game or rugby game . |
| 5 | I liken being a creative music person to going to see a football game or rugby game . |
| 6 | That I stress is a preliminary view they could not and would not wish to make a final decision until they have all the information . |
| 7 | The first man I met was an old fellow sitting on the church wall smoking a pipe . |
| 8 | ‘ Listen , ’ said Princess Anne , ‘ wherever I sit IS the Royal Box . ’ |
| 9 | what I lacked was a foreign accent , almond eyes , straight or springy black hair , a black skin , a muscular physique , a mind full of difficult alphabets , a sense of rhythm , a pitiful history of slavery and oppression , and a massive member — though not necessarily in that order . |
| 10 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 11 | ‘ The sounds I program are the natural Stick sounds with synthesised coloration for atmospherics . |
| 12 | ‘ All I want is a normal life . |
| 13 | And , for the moment , all I want is a little peace and quiet although it 's not all that quiet , thanks to the gaps between the attic floorboards left by the cottage 's Victorian jerrybuilder : how Riva can snore on through all those goings-on I do not know . |
| 14 | ALL I want is a fantastic time with just as crazy a female . |
| 15 | ‘ What I want is a biodegradable board — like the husk of a grain of wheat . |
| 16 | All I want is a few answers , then you 're free to leave any time you like . ’ |
| 17 | All I want is a yearly figure . ’ |
| 18 | The problems start when they get out of the ‘ All I want is a basic word processor ’ frame of mind and start getting into some serious computing . |
| 19 | All I want is a little cottage . |
| 20 | But right now , all I want is a fair hearing . |
| 21 | What I want is the best government for Rhodesia . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Statistics are all very well and good , but what I want is the human angle . |
| 23 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 24 | Returning on the bus from Medenine I noticed a solitary blonde whom I assumed was a stray package tourist from one of the hotels on the west of the island . |
| 25 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 26 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 27 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 28 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 29 | I 'd been a naughty boy , |
| 30 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |