Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 2 | However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in . |
| 3 | People keep writing letters to the Mercury saying how can we afford to spend time and money debating this , well they can afford the time and the money employing out of work newsreaders to produce videos and writers and photographers to produce their glossy magazines , their glossy leaflets I did n't need the R S P C A or the League to tell me that er , the fox photo , this fox photo was a fake , I mean that 's obvious to anybody I did n't need them to tell me that the video was suspect , that too is obvious . |
| 4 | I 'm taking my walking boots and a tent , and I shall go where the fancy takes me . ’ |
| 5 | Oh where the hell have I put that now ? |
| 6 | A ticking off at school , or a beating left me encrusted with guilt . |
| 7 | " Not a town or a village have I missed , but nowhere have I found a twin boy and girl named Stoja and Stojane . |
| 8 | It was a command , not a question ; or a refusal to believe I could refuse again . |
| 9 | Whether he wanted to be hurt and suffer , or an excuse to hit me back , I do n't know , but I 'm sure he wanted me to hit him . |
| 10 | Being in neither carpet nor the RAF left me out of the conversation , until the tea trolley came round . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope and pray that the decision to give me the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage all those who pursue the cause of peace to do so in a renewed spirit of optimism and strength . ’ |
| 12 | I thought , in my anxious state , that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there . |
| 13 | I will say very clearly then , that the discussion process I am offering does not work in all schools , with any group of teachers . |
| 14 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 15 | It seemed that the thread linking me to those with whom I was familiar was inherently insubstantial . |
| 16 | ‘ But now I 'm glad I went through with it and that the jury believed me , ’ she said . |
| 17 | With the leave of the House , I wish to answer the question that the Minister asked me . |
| 18 | And he added : ‘ It is important to me that the boys know I offered to do it for nothing . ’ |
| 19 | An answer that the Under-Secretary gave me on 15 October 1990 suggested that a fair number of warning signals would be available . |
| 20 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't think , as her future husband , that the matter concerns me ? ’ |
| 22 | I am sure that the House joins me , the hon. Member for Leyton and my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge ( Mr. Shersby ) in expressing deepest sympathy to the families of the officers who so tragically lost their lives in the course of duty . |
| 23 | The position at the moment is that the defendant tells me he would like to acquire the premises because erm a low criticism has , was made of the premises as being suitable for the carry on of the doctors surgery in partner , a doctor 's surgery in partnership because no doubt the space and other matters , er the defendant tells me that erm they are perfectly suitable for as it were a sole petitioner to carry on his practice from them and that is why he would like to acquire it . |
| 24 | There was a trace of exasperation in his voice as he said : ‘ I 've told my promoter Dan Duva that I want to fight all those contenders that the people want me to fight . |
| 25 | ‘ I told you that the letter gave me advice on how to deal with the family and that is all . ’ |
| 26 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 27 | I remember that the very day that the surgeon told me that he thought the cancer was incurable , I saw the swifts returning to their annual nesting-place . |
| 28 | Will the Secretary of State bear in mind the fact that the police tell me that there is a backlog of six to 10 weeks for vetting certain people , especially teachers ? |
| 29 | ‘ It 's good for the confidence to know that the captain wanted me , ’ Larkins said . |
| 30 | Could it have been to make up for Cymbeline 's cheating that the Umpire permitted me to find the sacristy so easily ? |