Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what I mean by an easy question something like |
| 2 | It was like watching someone push at an invisible turnstile . |
| 3 | ‘ But will my lady allow me to share her bed tonight if I smell like an unwashed ram ? ’ |
| 4 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 5 | So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water . |
| 6 | I speak as an hon. Member who has served time on four such Bills during the four years that I have been in the House — the City of London ( Various Powers ) Bill , the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill , and the London Underground Bills Nos. 1 and 2 . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the last time I charge into an unknown room , ’ panted Wednesday . |
| 8 | I 'm only ten years older than you , and I look like an old man . |
| 9 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
| 10 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |
| 11 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 12 | I recall in an earlier LRO article that a 3 litre version of this engine was made and is a good conversion . |
| 13 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 14 | I HAVE JUST RETURNED from a trip to Norway , a country I find like an exaggerated version of Scotland — bigger mountains , wider moorland , wilder scenery and more extreme temperatures . |
| 15 | ( I guess in an ecumenical setting it depends where you are coming from ! ) |
| 16 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 17 | When asked what effect this has on his paintings , he replies , ‘ I feel like an Irish outsider , which has given me a neutrality of vision . |
| 18 | I feel like an Edwardian princess or something ! |
| 19 | I feel like an important man ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm only 22 but I feel like an old man sometimes when I see what these little kids are doin' , ’ says Superia , a three-year Lo Life veteran . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel like an old Marie biscuit that someone 's left under the sofa . ’ |
| 22 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 23 | I feel like an ardent ghost , like a mute shedding tears of eagerness , as Irene lies in our arms . |
| 24 | I also think he probably thought that it might help to ease the tension erm in Northern Ireland , whether it did or not I leave as an open debate and I do n't think there was just a single motive for President Clinton 's decision , but the one I was trying to demonstrate which was hit straight away was there was a domestic element , a des domestic political element in the decision . |
| 25 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 26 | I start from an apparent paradox . |
| 27 | And I march to an unseen drum that is the metronome of an infinite host and like Thoreau , I am lifted and inspired by a music that no one else hears . |
| 28 | I write for an American magazine . |
| 29 | Erm sorry , just to come back , er I work for an amateur theatre company |
| 30 | right , right what I see as an interesting possibility the papers that we got in this week from Telford College that came to me |