Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is one of the finest strikers so I suppose you ca n't totally blame the defence but by this time I thought we were in for a beating . |
| 2 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 3 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 5 | I have trouble finding the heavier strings because I prefer flatwounds . |
| 6 | I found I would eat as much of the unrestricted foods as I wanted and I still steadily lost weight . |
| 7 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 8 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 9 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
| 10 | In the early weeks after I had him I suffered from postnatal depression . |
| 11 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 12 | I ca n't enjoy the good ones if I do n't experience the bad ones . |
| 13 | The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out . |
| 14 | I dressed and crept along the endless corridors until I found the staircase and slid silently down the banisters under the disapproving eye of Sir Mauger Grindlewood . |
| 15 | ‘ I just wanted to check the ecclesiastical forms before I approached Lord Dersingham , ’ said the Inspector . |
| 16 | I gave the pompous statuary a flick of the pink feathers as I went past . |
| 17 | They say the stage is a respectable profession nowadays , well maybe it is , but I ca n't think it 's changed all that much in the five years since I left . |
| 18 | Secondly , is it possible to fit extended shackles to the rear of the front springs as I have seen on some military LWB ? |
| 19 | There 's an old woman with thick glasses and a name tag who 's serving the hot drinks so I go over to her and ask how much money I got . |
| 20 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |
| 21 | Now the areas that I 've identified are the same ones as I put on the board last week . |
| 22 | Or have you got the same blanks as I 've got . |
| 23 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 24 | My Lords if this bill had been introduced by a government of a different political persuasion to the present one , I would of course have spoken in precisely the same terms as I do today and I believe that in circumstances of that sort , the overwhelming majority of this House would have taken precisely the same view . |
| 25 | If I ever have a dig at him now he says : ‘ Christ , you 've read the same books as I have ! ’ and I say : ‘ Yeah but you 've got the licence to prove it . ’ ’ |
| 26 | In the 30-plus years since I started my CIT life as a student , I have found the many local and national meetings and lectures to have been a valuable way of giving and receiving information and help . |
| 27 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 28 | ‘ But when I pick her up from school I 'm not allowed to look around the other girls because I know her headmistress disapproves … ’ |
| 29 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
| 30 | Their veteran prop Kevin Ward commented : ‘ I never knew there was so much intense rivalry between the two clubs until I came to St Helens . |