Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 2 | They had to walk , and a real hike it was — getting on for three miles I think . |
| 3 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 4 | And er you wo n't drive naturally for two reasons I suppose . |
| 5 | In any case if they were n't in after three rings I was giving up . |
| 6 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 7 | Apparently like all numbers I used to only use B three and A one |
| 8 | But obviously with twelve matches I 'm not gon na be able to spread it like I did last year . |
| 9 | So in other words I 'll I 'll raise up somebody to fill my shoes I suppose . |
| 10 | And so in these circumstances I dealt with much speed and remarkably low Scottish cunning . |
| 11 | So by 10 miles I was pretty depressed . |
| 12 | We resist change because of fear of the unknown and because change can threaten our fragile sense of identity — when my self-image is indistinct , I must hold on desperately to those parts I can see , so that they survive . |
| 13 | From The Childhood , and even more from some conversations I recorded with the poet 's second cousin ( T. Trehame Thomas ) in 1966–7 , there are hints that Mrs Thomas 's family proudly preserved the memory of Alderman Townsend and his descendants : the Tedmans at a vicarage in Much Birch , near Hereford ; another great-uncle at Limpley Stoke near Bath with an interest in the development of Edward 's French grammar ; and many more who had either been abroad and returned to moderate affluence in the Border counties ( according to Mr T. T. Thomas 's recollections ) or had settled abroad in Africa or in the USA , like Edward 's aunt Margaret . |
| 14 | — ( in answer to How are you getting on with those jobs I asked you to do ? ) |
| 15 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 16 | ‘ So are yours — you could do with a trifle more meat on them , but otherwise they compare very favourably with other bone-structures I 've met . ’ |
| 17 | Me brain 's so bloody crinkled up with other things I have n't got time to bloody think about driving . |
| 18 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 19 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 20 | I was , I was n't meaning you to go up in single numbers I was meaning , go up in hundreds . |
| 21 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 22 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 23 | I did , and this time out of forty applicants I was successful . |
| 24 | They 've never been reviewed in ZZAP ! , though , so unless they slipped out under assumed names I 'm afraid you 've had it . |
| 25 | I , I 'll speak to them first and I 'll , I 'll er when , when , when you come back with some details I , I 'll let you know then . |
| 26 | When she comes out in nice clothes I say get them for modelling ? |
| 27 | Thi this is something which has come out in several places I do n't know whether the members noted it , erm the er it also touches on , on , on what my colleague said earlier and the item in paragraph V er the assumption of the demand remain much as it is , heavily towards the South East particularly Gatwick . |
| 28 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |
| 29 | But when I got home and found my answerphone knee-deep in angry messages I did n't really have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that you had something to do with it . ’ |
| 30 | well you sit there then , I 'll come back in two minutes I , I ca n't hear what Richard and James are doing |