Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could discourse at great length on the history of Europe , illustrating how little I knew on this vast subject ( having ducked out of history lessons at the age of thirteen ) . |
| 2 | When I was eleven I moved to secondary school , Henry Compton in Fulham . |
| 3 | After that I put in another fast lap and coasted from there on . ’ |
| 4 | Very , very easily vaporises it , but and then when I do that I get minus sixteen plus I minus the square root off one thousand , one hundred and fifty six , all over two , plus minus sixteen , plus or minus what 's the square root of one thousand one hundred and fifty six ? |
| 5 | After that I dropped to 5 , 7 and out , but he sailed on magisterially . |
| 6 | I agree with that I agree with that |
| 7 | I agree with that I agree with that |
| 8 | And the highest is somewhere around seven hundred and fifty I think for one deal . |
| 9 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 10 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 11 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 12 | ‘ Now what 's this I hear about this madman driving an Irish Ford ? ’ |
| 13 | This I do with all my heart . |
| 14 | This I did for five weeks returning to hospital to have my X-rays checked . |
| 15 | As I write this I realize at last why it is that her face has kept coming to me in this room . |
| 16 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 17 | At the end of the day though , the championship I think , tells you who is the best team of any one year and erm that 's the professional 's choice I think , if you said at the start of the year which = trophy we 'd like to win , we would have said the championship , erm we were top I think after two games and we fell away a bit since but erm the time to be tops after twenty two , so lets hope we can get up there . |
| 18 | Platinum was one of the few I came across that allowed you to have any more . ’ |
| 19 | Some I taped of that . |
| 20 | Scots preparing for conquest are a wonderful bunch , not much different I imagine from those bearded clansmen of the middle ages . |
| 21 | A failed test means no progress that round , and a test failed by 30 or more means the character has slipped right back to the bottom of the stairs — anyone beneath him must make another I test at -20 to avoid being carried back down as well . |
| 22 | It is this which leads to low levels of profitability and to a lack of incentive to undertake new investment . |
| 23 | The whole issue was then revived by a consultation paper published by the government in February 1985 which led to further legislation . |
| 24 | ‘ I am a partisan of the idea of two inter-governmental conferences , one dealing with economic and monetary union and related institutional reform by the end of 1991 , and another which deals with European political union , one or two years later or even at the same time , ’ Mr Delors told MEPs in Strasbourg yesterday . |
| 25 | At this she burst into loud laughter that sounded rather like the hooting of a siamang and slapped her thighs with her hands . |
| 26 | This she did to good effect because she came to know French , German , Italian , and Latin well and to read Spanish , Norwegian , Danish , Welsh , and Early English . |
| 27 | Roxburgh explained : ‘ In a situation like this you act on three factors ; medical opinion , the player 's attitude and your own gut feelings . |
| 28 | In Act I Scene V she calls to evil spirits , showing that she realises human feelings must be obliterated in the fight for power . |
| 29 | Charles 's sister Isabella , Edward II 's queen , was still alive , and his two predecessors , Louis X who died in 1316 , and Philip V who died in 1321 , had daughters — Philip had five . |
| 30 | The writer Joseph Addison is the best-known of the few who benefited from this . |