Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As by my faith I see no more in you
2 Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’
3 As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness .
4 In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion .
5 A year later when I had Katie and I was married , I did n't want " to go to hospital in case I got the same treatment , but they were totally different .
6 In this case I feel a deep conviction that I 'm not making a mistake .
7 Well in that case I think the cheapest cheapest alternative yeah is erm , if you 're gon na do er something like that , would be a barn dance in the hall down Edinburgh Way er which you get quite cheap
8 In this instance I have a better chance of getting the ball close by using the slope to let the ball run down to the flag .
9 For an instant I saw a different woman : not the sour , bored old creature I had grown to expect , but someone strong and humorous .
10 I went down the steps at the sign of the big neon M. I put a five-copeck piece into the automatic entrance which wo n't prevent non-payers travelling but buses in order to embarrass them .
11 Now I 've got that off my chest I have a few questions for you :
12 inside it and then for you and mum I bought a little something , it was one pound forty .
13 On deck I feel a perfect target for any sniping moron .
14 Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs .
15 Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad 's boots on the cobbles .
16 ‘ In my lunch hour I run a three and a half mile circuit of the village where I work .
17 Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull .
18 Yet when I step off the bus at the Coronet cinema I get the same lurch as when I first left home .
19 And of course I get a big boost when something like this happens , because words make plain sense , even though Tod always reads them backwards .
20 Of course I know the vast majority — especially the New People — do n't care a damn about any of the arts .
21 Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so .
22 Er and of course I seen the present managers are , are th the one you know only just lives down the road here he 's recently retired .
23 Of course I share the hon. Gentleman 's sympathy in the case of Mr. Newell .
24 I 'm not erm , I 'm not going to be in a situation to record all my chat anyway , I do n't think , because of the erm , the amount of it , when I 'm running a course I do an awful lot of chatting during the day .
25 and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past
26 Of course I give the hon. Gentleman that assurance .
27 Of course I give the hon. Gentleman the pledge that we shall take up any of those cases , should he send the details to me .
28 Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van .
29 After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers .
30 In the afternoon I watch the English football .
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