Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course I wanted him to produce me , I love his work , but I only wanted him to produce half the album and I wanted to work with other producers . |
| 2 | He gave me the thumbs up sign , half a wink and I marched head high to the door . |
| 3 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |
| 4 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 5 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 6 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
| 7 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 8 | Then I 've only got half an hour and I wan na go through my tap . |
| 9 | He was gone for about half an hour and I do n't think any of us even suspected that there was something amiss . |
| 10 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 11 | No one else seems ever to have encountered such a sight and I have had difficulty convincing friends of the truth of my tale . |
| 12 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 13 | ‘ Poor darling , you 've had such a time and I keep rabbiting on and on about it . |
| 14 | The word " taxation " is a short expression of such an idea and I think a happy one . |
| 15 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 16 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 17 | look 's like you went and like all the clothes and I suppose |
| 18 | Well I just keep when I sit down , I 'm tired all the while and I 've got no appetite whatsoever . |
| 19 | These women ran and organized all the groups and I remember often being approached as if I were a rare species of animal . |
| 20 | Colleagues , the C E C are now accepting all the motions and I call Paul er Paul to put a view concerning a qualification with one of them . |
| 21 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 22 | We are creating chances all the time and I 've always believed if I get my fair share , I 'll score goals at any level . |
| 23 | ‘ There have been certain views about Nigel all the time and I 've sometimes been criticised for not playing him . |
| 24 | And then something ha no that is completely in your mind because I 'm rude to people all the time and I 've never even thought about it and I still do things and I do n't , you know , it does n't even cross my mind . |
| 25 | I mean all that kid do was scream , scream , scream , scream , I mean Ross was n't the best one to be with , cos he was selfish and of course in Julia 's eyes he never did any wrong but Kerry come off worse all the time and I said childminding is fine and it 's necessary but the people , you know that , that people ca n't know people and Julia was a spoilt brat so |
| 26 | And you just could n't absolutely see anything serving customer I was going to so , to move or change out my draw shutting it up , turning it off , going away and somebody else had come , he kept , kept , kept doing that and he was stood there all the time and I thought I thought you definitely wo n't get the job ! |
| 27 | ‘ Impressionable teenagers use the Arts Centre all the time and I do n't want to see them confronted by this sort of filth . |
| 28 | Unfortunately she now clings to me all the time and I find it terribly embarrassing and uncomfortable . |
| 29 | I am learning all the time and I feel I am ready to hit the big time . ’ |
| 30 | We 're advancing all the time and I think there may came a time we wo n't use animals at all for medical research , but at , up till now we needed to use animals for medical research . |