Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 2 | There were no such thrills the day I visited the set of Dancing . |
| 3 | I have nervous breakdowns every time I see the Husayn twins ! ’ |
| 4 | And erm so really three times a day I had to er make tea . |
| 5 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I would pay two hundred pounds — two thousand pounds every penny I have — to stop you shooting me . |
| 7 | ‘ Not less than ten thousand pounds a year I 'd guess … canny old fool in command … would not surprise me if … but convinced can succeed … patience and patience is all … please keep up your letters to Colonel the Honourable A. A. Hope , M.P . ’ |
| 8 | But in current conditions the change I am making will help to ease the pressures on liquidity and avoid complicating money market arrangements . |
| 9 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |
| 10 | They 're bound to be at least sixty , to eighty pounds a pan I would think , if not |
| 11 | Jealous scenes every time I come home … ’ |
| 12 | But then , I was ready ter do all o' those fings the day I said I 'd marry yer . |
| 13 | But not many of the seventh years the year I am |
| 14 | Thirty nine days a year I 'll be having . |
| 15 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession . |
| 17 | For two months every summer I was engaged to produce , and act as Master of Ceremonies for , the Home Gas Show , a weekly hour-length commercial programme . |
| 18 | The the trust has actually approached several Council 's in the area not just Harlow Council obviously but many many other Councils and I think there was only one other Council that provided some funding and that was something like two hundred and fifty pounds was offered at one time I think that 's ceased now so there is no other Council although although it 'd be interesting tonight although fifty per cent of the people who actually use this facility actually come from outside the town but there 's no funding directly or indirectly from any other Council so my knowledge would be if you exclude B P exclude General Portfolio perhaps I 'm doing other companies a disservice I ca n't think of any other major company in town that 's actually provided but Gordon can you think of . |
| 19 | Three or four nights a week I also wait at dinner . |
| 20 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 21 | When , therefore , I say ‘ The colour I saw yesterday was a white colour , , or ‘ The sensation I feel is one of tightness ’ , in both cases the attribute I affirm of the colour or of the other sensation is mere resemblance — simple likeness to sensations I have had before , and which have had those names bestowed upon them . |
| 22 | If you really do want to help me , I need your unquestioning support , not your childish tantrums every time I do or say something you do n't like . ’ |