Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 2 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 3 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 4 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 5 | SIR — Although like most MPs I accept the principle that a majority of one is enough , I find it difficult to explain to my Southend Conservative supporters who have phoned me why your paper takes the view that there was a 4.43 per cent swing from Conservative to Labour in our constituency . |
| 6 | Signora Puglia was convinced that with more lessons I could take the examination for the higher school in Parma , the Scuola Media . |
| 7 | So it was that although in those days I was often homesick , missing Harry , missing Daisy , it was never unbearable . |
| 8 | There is no need to be too rigid in your choice of material for each season , unless you feel it is important , but nevertheless you should still maintain the overall feeling of each season , although in some cases I chose a few out-of-season flowers to give a better colour or shape . |
| 9 | It never occurred to me that within three years I should hate the Italians with an unrelenting hatred . |
| 10 | I have made it clear to the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , the hon. Member for Wiltshire , North ( Mr. Needham ) , that in general terms I have every sympathy with the people in the Housing Executive and the Department of Health 's occupational therapy department whom , in effect , I shall be criticising . |
| 11 | For there to be such a fact about me is for it also to be true , roughly , that in certain circumstances I would consciously believe , desire , fear , intend , or whatever . |
| 12 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
| 13 | Er I 've never had any dwindling intellectual powers er simply because I 've never had any intellectual powers in the first place , so I would agree with him that in all cases I find dealing with er matters of a er er er er of , of legislation er en enormously complex . |
| 14 | ‘ I realise that in many ways I have been extraordinarily fortunate , and I never stop counting my blessings . |
| 15 | However , he will understand that in such matters I rely heavily upon the professionals at the Meteorological Office for advice . |
| 16 | I had a supreme belief , without any resource to health books , that in medical matters I was a born DIY man . |
| 17 | But there will obviously be sort of an ongoing training and so on because I , I know that in some ways I think it 's been very mixed and I qu I put |
| 18 | I know I 'm not saying sorry , because I said that in those letters I wrote , and then I had to copy them out again , because they were n't neat enough , and that 's enough sorries for anyone . |
| 19 | I have always had reasonable live-in accommodation ( having inspected it before accepting a position ) and , although on certain days I have worked non-stop , on others I have been very quiet and still received the same salary . |
| 20 | With the anti-roll bar up front , the car rolls less than it used to and has a jigglier low-speed ride , but it 's true to say that on all models I drove the quality of ride was largely good . |
| 21 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 22 | This meant that on special occasions I had to wear a black pleated skirt , white blouse and black beret , with white socks and black shoes and , when the weather was cold , a black cloak . |
| 23 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 24 | ‘ Friends , enemies , Englishmen , ’ I began , ‘ hear now the claims of Scotland ! ’ , and for four minutes I spelled out what I thought they were . |
| 25 | And for five minutes I quizzed this wretched bird without getting a single chirp out of it . |
| 26 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 27 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 28 | For casual clothes I like a make called Big Bop and for special things I like a designer in Australia called Jenny Bannister . |
| 29 | This is one that 's been , I 've had appointment and for three times I 'd had to cancel it . |
| 30 | A month later I saw something bright green there , and after six months I had a very small field of corn . |