Example sentences of "piece of [noun] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are going to decide now , by looking at your graph how you could improve this piece of work and I want you to write the target you decide on , it could be more than one , in the space that says I would improve this work by , you 're to write that now please , off you go and while you 're doing that let's get the register done , shh , shh shh , shh Sarah |
| 2 | I munched away at my apple and toyed with a piece of cheese as I tried to concentrate on their views on Karl Marx . |
| 3 | All the assassin had to do was take the piece of thread as I did , pull it very slowly , which hardly makes a sound , and murder is only a few seconds away . |
| 4 | Sometimes , but only very rarely do I touch a piece of bliss when I grope in the dark . |
| 5 | Every piece of evidence that I have seen shows that the service that is now being delivered is substantially better than anything that was ever done , not least when we last had a Labour Government in office delivering those services . |
| 6 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 7 | A piece of land where I happened to be born . |
| 8 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 9 | Then , as Shiona started to turn away , her body stiff with loathing , he added calmly , ‘ Oh , by the way , I have a piece of news that I think will interest you … ’ |
| 10 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 11 | So she dashed off to her room and came back with a piece of underwear that I had certainly never seen before . |
| 12 | It was a nice piece of lingerie but I 'd never worked out why they named it after Spanish terrorists |