Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
| 2 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 3 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 4 | Within the category of lexical items , I include the formulaic patterns I referred to earlier . |
| 5 | This controversial book was widely discussed but whether it was read by artists I leave to further research . |
| 6 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 7 | The number of times I come off this roundabout onto the wrong road , it 's |
| 8 | Many times I moved from one state to the other until I mustered the strength to cling to the twilight zone without slipping back into darkness . |
| 9 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 10 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 11 | After days of begging from supporters I have at last compiled a comprehensive A-Z of football , Athletico style . |
| 12 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 13 | And it 's important for our staff to be aware of that , and to realize that we have got ta continue to give , those two clients I believe in particular , the best possible service we can provide . |
| 14 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 15 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 16 | One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry . |
| 17 | I have to say there was one piece information I picked up yesterday asking and we 're talking about the rural areas I think in this discussion , the rural viability , rather then er urban . |
| 18 | Despite my earlier remarks , I will lapse into ‘ Blue Peter ’ mode occasionally throughout the article to recommend a little bit of ‘ do-it-yourself ’ to overcome minor shortcomings I found in some of the pieces of equipment during my field testing . |
| 19 | I do believe that one of the best ways we 're going to benefit from the new circumstances I hope of economic stability of low inflation and low taxation , will be to ensure that the provision of capital is made by the principle institutions , namely the banks and the investing institutions . |
| 20 | And so in these circumstances I dealt with much speed and remarkably low Scottish cunning . |
| 21 | Men not in Botha 's mould , nor like some of the bangers I saw in some up-country games . |
| 22 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 23 | During the next two days I advised on industrial relations problems in catering , computers and property services and sent back three more folders of work to my line manager . |
| 24 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 25 | Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces . |
| 26 | For the next few weeks I thought of little else , and planned to read music there . |
| 27 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought I would never be another Thomas Hardy so I 'd write romance , using places I know in real life for inspiration , ’ she says . |
| 29 | I have really not seen anything as bad as that , apart from the attacks I had from Labour members when I first got the Commons , when they called me Harvey Proctor in drag . |
| 30 | There are several poems I wrote about this fixation , and some unfinished ones like this : |