Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pledge to increase the amount of time or money I give to environmental and development organisations . |
| 2 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 3 | The most common suggestion for garam masala I find in authentic Indian cookery books usually suggests equal quantities of cinnamon , cardamom and clove , with or without the pepper , a perfect complement to the spices of the mixture that began the cooking . |
| 4 | This picture of myself develops from a myriad of experiences , particularly from the feedback I get from other people . |
| 5 | And at the beginning of the following term I wrote in huge letters on the front of my rough book ( regularly inspected by the housemistress ) , ‘ Exuberance is beauty ’ . |
| 6 | I think perhaps it is the cocaine I keep for medical purposes , pure , straight cocaine . |
| 7 | An outspoken individualist , Sandy never left anyone in doubt about his views , and when as a newspaper editor I came under governmental pressure from time to time , Sandy was usually the first to phone his support with disdainful disregard of the fact that the telephones were tapped by the state security police . |
| 8 | If I could speak French like François Mitterrand I probably would n't have the empathy I do for young horses . |
| 9 | Maybe Errol picked up on my mood because he said something offensive about a lady I regarded with deep affection . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's a girl I know of called Bella something , ’ said Mary . |
| 11 | To the left was only stygian darkness , too syrupy tor me to think of penetrating , the black from which ignorance is made . |
| 12 | When I am lying with him , and he is inside me — that is the moment I know for sure . ’ |
| 13 | Another important aim I envisaged for New Millennium when it was incorporated in 1983 was the development of holiday ideas which would try to eliminate damage to the environment associated with mass tourism . |
| 14 | ‘ I doubt whether I could have indicated it more clearly than by the importance I placed on foreign affairs in the last year . |
| 15 | I will also devote some time to topic work because of the importance I attach to integrated approaches to learning . |
| 16 | Most of my splicing I did at random , automatically . |
| 17 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 18 | fruits of the forest I treat with great suspicion |
| 19 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 20 | Or or the rest I mean in general |
| 21 | Federal and Capital we er , is , is a small business er , but highly profitable and er , it 's a subscription business so that the cash comes in advance and er , the er , the only criticism I have of Federal and Capital is that it 's , it , it , it , it would be nice if it was five times bigger than it is . |
| 22 | I think that er that is a question better directed towards the French , possibly my colleagues in the foreign office but my understanding is that the French assembly have indeed er approved ratification er but the French government i is declining er to append the appropriate signatures to it er er until agreement over the erm the parliament building at at Strasbourg is completed erm but my honourable friend I think in true parliamentary form , asks questions to which he already feels he knows pretty well what the answer is and I suspect that my answer squares with what he knows already . |
| 23 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
| 24 | It is not so much the face as the figure and deportment I consider of paramount concern . ’ |
| 25 | Between them Caroline and M have every quality I hate in other women . |
| 26 | With all the genuine , yet inherently easy , sympathy of the committed onlooker , it is a prospect I anticipate with profound interest . |
| 27 | The good news I hear from feminist friends is that it 's becoming old hat these days to involve the father in childbirth . |
| 28 | Earlier this morning I suggested to arch modernizer Harriet Harman that she and her reforming colleagues had run into the buffers . |
| 29 | P.S. If it 's any consolation the Polish woman I work with said ‘ Is no problem . |
| 30 | Finally a woman I worked with told me in no uncertain terms that she had no such desire , which threw me utterly . |