Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 2 | yeah definitely , although that essay I did today I think is really good , it 's probably the best one I 've ever written the grammar 's good , I do n't know whether , I do n't think the content 's particularly thrilling , but the grammar 's good |
| 3 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |
| 4 | I 've been retired from playing for five years , although this season I messed about a bit just to keep in touch with what was going on , and I really do think that someone else should have the honour of captaining the team . |
| 5 | I think a settlement of this size would be compatible with the general pattern of village development that exists in the York area , if a new settlement were significantly larger than this pattern I think there would be a high degree of risk of coalescence with the existing er communities , and would certainly threaten their identity . |
| 6 | They said hello cheerily as we passed , and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour , which happily has been blacked from my memory . |
| 7 | Less than half price I should say . |
| 8 | Many of last year 's group were interested in going to a church service , so this year I have arranged to bring them to the morning service at St. Clements on Sunday , 15th July . |
| 9 | I will be dealing with seven ( although another claim I am not making is that of exhaustiveness ) : affection , status , stimulation , autonomy , security , money and belief . |
| 10 | More harmless than some babies I 've known . ’ |
| 11 | The pit canteen is the only women 's workplace , for example , in a pit village of fewer than 100 households I visited . |
| 12 | As a member for more than 35 years I well understand the reasons for it , but I am inclined to the view now that one impartial professional body would be a far better umbrella organization . |
| 13 | For more than 50 years I have nurtured what might be called an insatiable interest in China and the arts , crafts , and accomplishments of the Chinese people , the oldest extant civilization on earth . |
| 14 | No no more than five minutes I would say . |
| 15 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 16 | ‘ Better than one story I know , about a baby who cried at every meal . |
| 17 | On more than one occasion I caught senior management using our symbolic disorder to dress down young constables . |
| 18 | ‘ So long as you give me something better than bottom pudding I 'm willing to sit here till nightfall if need be . ’ |
| 19 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 20 | If there 's a better goalkeeper in Britain than Big Tommy I have yet to see him . |
| 21 | The ground is literally parched and every blade of grass is yellow as sulphur , but independent of this the land in the interior is less rich and the fen of the country less fertile than any country I have ever traveled [ sic ] . |
| 22 | Robin Bailey 's benevolent Colonel Pickering and Michael Bryant 's florid , ginger-haired Doolittle are as good as you would expect ; Alison Fiske gets more comedy out of Mrs Pearce , the housekeeper , than any performance I have seen . |
| 23 | And Chief Joseph was a man of more sagacity and intelligence than any Indian I have ever met . |
| 24 | It would have no effect at all on Aline , who could add two and two faster and get the sum right better than any girl I knew . |
| 25 | ‘ He is more hip than any man I know , ’ says film executive Mark Canton , who helped to make Jack as rich as he is today , by persuading him to play The Joker in Batman . |
| 26 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 27 | Coleridge thought George ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew ’ |
| 28 | You can already manage horses better than any man I know — with the possible exception of Tom here — and you 've picked up a good general knowledge of farming . |
| 29 | This story , told from a child 's point of view , from the limited perspective of a small Welsh town , far away from the fighting , brought the sadness of war closer than any story I have ever heard . |
| 30 | AIB had just the man for this task — an engineering inspector with more experience of such matters than any other I have met . |