Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 2 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 3 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 4 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 5 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 6 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 7 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , my apologies for not being with you today and I look forward to a FANTASTIC reunion with you all at Crystal Palace in November . |
| 9 | I look forward to a comparable result for trust-status hospitals in Scotland . |
| 10 | I look forward to a positive and enthusiastic response from my right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General . |
| 11 | ‘ I square up onto a prepared board which for the larger paintings is medium density fibreboard , or MDF , half an inch thick which I have primed on both sides . |
| 12 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
| 13 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 14 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 15 | Now I only hope I get off to a winning start with Leeds . ’ |
| 16 | I get in from a dull lunch and find your urgent communication on my desk . |
| 17 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
| 18 | I buy a cup of tea so thin it could have been made by Rachel 's landlady , and I stare out through a steamed-up café window across the cold empty promenade . |
| 19 | I mean , mentally I feel angry , but physically I feel rather like a limp dish-rag ! |
| 20 | I tackle up with a through-action carbon rod , 11ft long , a fixed-spool reel carrying 5lb b.s. line to which a size 2 hook is tied direct . |
| 21 | Although , ’ I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ‘ Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . |
| 22 | I am pleased to have ladies since they are more comfortable to be with and understand better the difficulties I labour under with a young baby and poor help and no husband constantly at my elbow . |
| 23 | ‘ I turn round at a leaning gate post where the gate is permanently open , if somewhat askew . |
| 24 | As the sea is calm I turn in to a narrow cleft on the headland , cutting the engine and gliding in between the faces of grey rock to let my passengers get the flavour of the sights and sounds of a Shetland geo . |
| 25 | Once a month I go out for a serious session — the last of which was a hard circuit of Radnor Forest , but I enjoyed it tremendously . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I go in for a certain amount of golf , you know . |
| 27 | It 's not a role that I welcome , although I try hard as a responsible chairman of the group to do the job as well as I possibly can . |
| 28 | I wanted to check on the landing patch that I keep there on a semi-permanent lease . |
| 29 | I end up with a flat battery about once a week even though the dynamo , heavy duty battery and voltage regulator have been replaced . |
| 30 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |