Example sentences of "[adj] i [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I sound like a right right one but it does . |
| 2 | I only fill them in that I know for a fact . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , seeing me mixing rose madder and burnt sienna in my paint-box , ‘ what 's all this I hear about a new mother ? ’ |
| 4 | This I regard as a possible but less natural meaning of the section . |
| 5 | We stop the jeep for a few words with the Marines , some I recognise from a few weeks ago when they were on their way to take up positions on the coast , on the left of 1st Commando Brigade . |
| 6 | These I put inside a paper bag , along with a pound note and a hastily drawn picture of a devil and a donkey . |
| 7 | FIGURE 3 I put in a few plants growing outside the window . |
| 8 | Bit too complicated I fear for a terrace chant … still — I like it ! ! |
| 9 | But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes , |
| 10 | Proust is also exceptionally aware I think of a , of the , the , the complex nature of reality , a reality built up in a number of layers , so that his sentences are made even longer than might otherwise have been the case , by the introduction of successive subordinate clauses , in which he seeks to qualify as precisely as possible what he is saying . |
| 11 | On the doorstep his final words to the last guest to leave were , ‘ You must vote for me when next I apply for a Cambridge professorship ’ . |
| 12 | Erm next I propose as a , er , resolution four which is a special resolution and s set out in the notice of the meeting and is to modify to a limited extent , the obligations relating to the allotment of shares for cash contained in section eighty nine of the Companies Act . |