Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the reasons I think the Japanese are so good at putting in quality systems is that , in some ways , it 's painful attention to detail , a series of little things which really improve performance . |
| 2 | Each book ran to 64 pages and from these gems I learnt a great deal about Soccer , Cricket , Rugby Union , Rugby League and other sports . |
| 3 | Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’ |
| 4 | As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness . |
| 5 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 6 | In this case I feel a deep conviction that I 'm not making a mistake . |
| 7 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
| 8 | Indeed when the time came to leave Germany I made a mental decision never to return . |
| 9 | For an instant I saw a different woman : not the sour , bored old creature I had grown to expect , but someone strong and humorous . |
| 10 | I went down the steps at the sign of the big neon M. I put a five-copeck piece into the automatic entrance which wo n't prevent non-payers travelling but buses in order to embarrass them . |
| 11 | In fact , the hours are so long at clubs I suspect an ordinary shop-keeping junior would soon quit and go back to Sainsbury 's . |
| 12 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 13 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 14 | On Wednesday 5 March 1980 , I explored the practicalities of this course at a meeting in the department and on 10 March I minuted the Prime Minister . |
| 15 | inside it and then for you and mum I bought a little something , it was one pound forty . |
| 16 | On deck I feel a perfect target for any sniping moron . |
| 17 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 18 | Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad 's boots on the cobbles . |
| 19 | Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull . |
| 20 | And of course I get a big boost when something like this happens , because words make plain sense , even though Tod always reads them backwards . |
| 21 | Of course I know the vast majority — especially the New People — do n't care a damn about any of the arts . |
| 22 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 23 | Er and of course I seen the present managers are , are th the one you know only just lives down the road here he 's recently retired . |
| 24 | Of course I share the hon. Gentleman 's sympathy in the case of Mr. Newell . |
| 25 | I 'm not erm , I 'm not going to be in a situation to record all my chat anyway , I do n't think , because of the erm , the amount of it , when I 'm running a course I do an awful lot of chatting during the day . |
| 26 | and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past |
| 27 | Of course I give the hon. Gentleman that assurance . |
| 28 | Of course I give the hon. Gentleman the pledge that we shall take up any of those cases , should he send the details to me . |
| 29 | Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van . |
| 30 | After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers . |