Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even when extreme and prolonged , they have a strange tickle of meaning in them that becomes more of a mystery as faith grows . |
| 2 | the abolition of licensing and the restoration of private building would again set them free to perform these tasks . |
| 3 | Friends and family often reject them , leaving them free to face this chronic condition alone . |
| 4 | It left me free to do all kinds of other things that I wanted to do . |
| 5 | Am I right to adopt this stance ? |
| 6 | Is everything I did for Miss Elizabeth worthless and am I foolish to expect more of her ? |
| 7 | You may need to ask yourself questions like ‘ When am I likely to have some space to myself ? ’ , |
| 8 | ‘ What am I supposed to do all that time without you ? ’ |
| 9 | GUIL : How am I supposed to take that ? |
| 10 | Am I supposed to believe that story ? ’ |
| 11 | However , if decisions are to be made in Brussels by alien institutions whose representatives are not elected by us and by people who we can not remove , and those decisions damage my constituents , am I supposed to accept that ? |
| 12 | Here mum how am I supposed to get that hi fi up to Reggie 's house when I ca n't remember the way through that fucking maze of flats with you |
| 13 | Yes , that was exactly my reaction when I first saw this set announced . |
| 14 | When I first saw this photograph I wept . |
| 15 | I first met this pretty parasite in a string of pork sausages ( how romantic ! ) and fell in love at first sight . |
| 16 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 17 | When I first met these ideas , I was reluctant to accept them , because they seemed to suggest that our knowledge of the world is more unreliable than I would like to think . |
| 18 | Of course , since I first penned these stirring lines E. O. Wilson has brought forth his spectacular synthesis of ethology and population genetics and opened anew the vigorous debate concerning the roles of the biological and the socially acquired in the determination of human behaviour . |
| 19 | When working with the flowers , I first arranged some large yellow roses at regular intervals around the picture and then positioned the peachy-coloured roses . |
| 20 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 21 | But the day when I first beheld this city I was well pleased therewith , and coveted it that I might be its Lord ; and I besought the Lord our God that he would give it me . |
| 22 | ( Sorry to be a trainspotter , but I first heard this in the Zanzibar , courtesy of Mr Tony Humphries ) . ’ |
| 23 | It was , ironically enough , at a conference of headteachers about five years ago that I first heard this now familiar piece of Machiavellian wisdom quoted by an HMI . |
| 24 | My only quibble is that when I first heard this song , at an afternoon gig in Dublin 's City Centre early this year , it was twice as long and consequently twice as precious . |
| 25 | The man I 've been trying to reach ever since I first started this whole thing . ’ |
| 26 | When Ann and I first visited this area , we followed the same route as luckless Montrose , travelling south from Caithness , over the Ord to the Kyle of Sutherland , past Lairg , then up Strath Oykle . |
| 27 | When I first mentioned this , it was only as an idea . |
| 28 | Climb up sunshine mountain I first learned this song about three years ago when I was doing a show for some of London 's police at Faringdon 's restaurant in London . |
| 29 | I think I must have known the truth about myself , in some deep part of my mind , when I first read those few pages of your book in my master 's study . |
| 30 | When I first read this , I gave it in the margin the chess marking ‘ ! ? ’ indicating a move which , though possibly brilliant , is probably unsound . |