Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , I got f I got , my total marks I could 've got was fifty eight and I got fifty four and she gave me a C and she said must improve your marks . |
| 2 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 3 | But as she administered to my addled wits I felt a surge of rebellion . |
| 4 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 5 | About my ruined clothes I felt less concern , for I noticed that the flood had made many people shabby . |
| 6 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 7 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 8 | My personal observations I can make a comment on , for example , the cultural area . |
| 9 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 10 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
| 11 | ‘ In my early days I was into Pere Ubu and Josef K , but now I 'm more mellow and listen to Lyle Lovett and some classical stuff . |
| 12 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 13 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 14 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 15 | ‘ To my little children I am a shadow also . |
| 16 | ‘ In my worst moments I thought everyone knew , except me . ’ |
| 17 | I will never return to Treasure Island , but in my worst dreams I still hear the sharp , high scream of Captain Flint the parrot : ‘ Pieces of eight ! |
| 18 | On my worst days I would eat five or six bars of chocolate . |
| 19 | Whether it was simply mere enjoyment or relief that I 'd survived my worst imaginings I do n't know — but it felt good . |
| 20 | Instead of whining about my memory I should be thanking my lucky stars I 'm alive at all . ’ |
| 21 | That 's right , it 's different for different people over there , I mean Mark over there who has n't been with the company very long erm , I mean , my existing calls I mean I , I know them sort of to , to drink with more or less you know , but |
| 22 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 23 | Until the passing of the Married Women 's Property Act the husband 's marriage vow , ‘ with all my worldly goods I thee endow ’ , was ironic . |
| 24 | With all my worldly debts I thee endow … |
| 25 | But by my late teens I had come to find this attitude repellent , and knew that I was never going to fulfil my parents ' expectations . |
| 26 | ‘ No , but until my late teens I spent each and every holiday on the Algarve so I have had conversations with quite a few . ’ |
| 27 | I walk from the petrol station to the store roughly 14 times a day and if I did n't have a pair of inner soles in my flat shoes I 'd cry ! ’ |
| 28 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 29 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 30 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |