Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am simply glad that in the modest glades of Barnes Common I can enjoy my peacocks , purple hairstreaks and red admirals , and never have to worry about whether or not I have set eyes on a yellow-legged tortoiseshell or a Higgins 's anomalous blue . |
| 2 | At the beginning of October 1983 I announced that out of a total staff of 817,633 we would ask for a reduction of 4,837 , which would save about £40 million . |
| 3 | as if to prove myself wrong , a faint signal turned up a ‘ Maltravers ’ farthing of Charles I. I began to wonder just how old this site really was . |
| 4 | At the end of April 1973 I went to see the King of Morocco to tell him about a plot to kill him . |
| 5 | If we do that against Manchester United I will be having nightmares for years . |
| 6 | If we do that against Manchester United I will be having nightmares for years . |
| 7 | My survival plan spun into action the other week with that hard-fought point against Northtown , and although we went down 4–1 against Clansford United I was not unduly worried — every well-oiled engine needs a little fine tuning . |
| 8 | In March 1992 I returned to New Zealand for the first time in over a dozen years , to sample again what light aviation there has to offer visitors . |
| 9 | Ahmed : When I joined the organization in March 1983 I had the impression that though my colleagues could deal with my ethnicity as a factor in our relationship , they were rather baffled about how to incorporate my sexuality into our work relationship . |
| 10 | In March 1953 I received the last of her novels to reach me in Egypt . |
| 11 | Julian Le Bas Landscapes Bede Gallery , Springwell Park , Jarrow , until March 20 I AM delighted to discover that Newcastle Polytechnic 's long-time art historian Alf Corlett is alive and well and living in well-earned retirement in East Sussex , where he has been on the look-out as a talent spotter for the Bede Gallery . |
| 12 | One day in February 1943 I returned to my billet to find the usual envelope addressed in my mother 's round handwriting . |
| 13 | SIR — In February 1987 I wrote to Jimmy Hill with my comments regarding the rules of football . |
| 14 | Soon there was another baby on the way , and one evening in February 1585 I hurried round to Henley Street to hear the news . |
| 15 | In February 1983 I announced in the House of Commons that health authorities should put their ancillary services out to tender to see whether they would get best value from private or in-house organizations . |
| 16 | In February 1983 I again met the Head of the Art Department . |
| 17 | So in February 1946 I resigned as Archdeacon . |
| 18 | IN FEBRUARY 1985 I found myself on a flight scheduled for the Yemen Arab Republic , now called Yemen since its amalgamation with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990 . |
| 19 | In February 1990 I was one of the first two secondees from the accountancy profession to join the Investigations Division at the DTI . |
| 20 | I knew Granpa wanted me to stay on at school and improve my readin' and writin' , but on the last Friday of term in December 1913 I walked out of the gates of Jubilee Street Elementary , with my father 's blessing . |
| 21 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |
| 22 | My first-class debut for Natal in December 1988 I scored a century in the first innings . |
| 23 | In January 1962 I drove to Banbury in the snow , a few days in advance of my family and the general removal . |
| 24 | In January 1973 I found myself , and the grey metal trunk my eldest brother had used to take to university in 1967 , dumped in an austere fifth form dormitory in the main block of the school . |
| 25 | On a dark and icy cold morning in January 1946 I flew in an RAF plane from Berlin to Kiel and then drove in a jeep to a British Army Church House a few miles outside the city . |
| 26 | In May 1989 I first introduced a ten-minute rule Bill — the Public Service Contract Bill — which sought to establish minimum standards of public service with automatic compensation for failure . |
| 27 | Reed chairman Peter Davis commented : ‘ In May 1991 I explained that our existing publishing and information business had first priority so far as further investment was concerned and that we had decided not to join our partners in putting more funds into BSkyB . |
| 28 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 29 | In May 1964 I travelled by coach with a couple of willing colleagues and a score or more of sixth-formers to spend a week reading , arguing , and welcoming visitors to a refreshing house on the Gower Peninsular in Wales . |
| 30 | In July 1945 I met Joe Gardner , Leslie 's surviving South African cousin . |