Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for Freud , whose impersonal style does not reveal him , all of them flaunt a pronounced sado-masochistic sensibility . |
| 2 | I favour a long-reaching front guard because it has less distance to travel before it strikes the opponent , and it is able to intercept attacks closer to source . |
| 3 | There is always an exception to a rule : I sell an excellent Italian no-cook lasagne . |
| 4 | I mean the only other thing we could do would be |
| 5 | By the logic of research and higher education , I mean the general conceptual relationships that exist between these two sets of activity , and I should like to explore those relationships in the following six theses . |
| 6 | I mean the lovely golden light on the the grass very late afternoon light I would suggest and it 's got this lovely warm colour on the grass . |
| 7 | I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better . |
| 8 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 9 | I mean the intelligent New People will always revolt and come across to our side . |
| 10 | You think of , I mean the obvious great power , the one superpower that 's left now is the United States compare the United States with let's say Fiji enormous difference in terms of the range of interests it has , erm the things in which in there 's hardly anything in the world takes place without some claim of the United States to have an interest in it . |
| 11 | Thus when I favour pay for ‘ childcare ’ I mean the day-to-day domestic care of people who need it ( obviously I would include adults too infirm to care for themselves ) . |
| 12 | I liken the recent televised steamrollering of Ms O'Connor 's merchandise to the nightly book-burning sessions by the Nazis in the '30s . |
| 13 | And , let's be frank , I fear the diminished sexual allure that woman might suffer . |
| 14 | I fear the discerning British skier would not be unreservedly impressed : no skiing above 2,000m , bus rides to and from skiing , a motor-was along one of the valleys at the heart of the lift system . |
| 15 | I attach the original signed copies of the above for your safe keeping . |
| 16 | I wish to be relatively uncontroversial about these definitions , although I realise the great philosophical problems involved in any description of I for instance.3 The indexical meaning is that which exists when we have ascribed referents to those discourse elements suggested by the symbolic meaning of a term . |
| 17 | As far as talking about tax is concerned , I realise the right hon. Gentleman 's sensitivity . |
| 18 | I was a bit blue , and being blue always makes me satirical , so I expect the odd unfair jest might have escaped my lips . |
| 19 | That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such . |
| 20 | ‘ I suggest an immediate preliminary press release . |
| 21 | I want no pompous official tours of my unit , you understand ? |
| 22 | I want a blue washable as well . |
| 23 | I want a nice curved edge so it 's kiddie proof . |
| 24 | I want a nice peaceful drive across the fields , thank you very much . |
| 25 | Keep those poll entries coming , I want a nice fat emailbag . |
| 26 | I want a nice shiny bit . |
| 27 | I do n't want a big roaming house , but I want a decent sized house and with a bit of garden ! |
| 28 | I want an org I want a bloody proper organ . |
| 29 | I want a common foreign policy and a common defence policy . |
| 30 | I want the tall high beechtrees round my bedroom window , I want the night rustle of the wind round the house , in moonlight or the beginning of rain or storms … |