Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The silver threepenny piece that I received as reward was hard earned but the episode taught me a lesson early in life — that good results are only achieved by extra effort .
2 ( Technically I should have Norris 's solo room because I 've been in the flat longest , but that room 's small and noisy ; also , Gav does n't snore and he 's quite happy to retreat to the living room couch if I have female company …
3 Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that
4 Inside it , it 's like a flat blue sort of velvet suede wallet but I said he
5 In addition , it will be eligible for up to £3.66 million under the urban crime fund initiative that I announced on 26 November .
6 I remember a very difficult erm problem I had when I erm was ordering some goods from a mail order firm and I kept on getting letters back after replies to mine , from the computer , and these letters were totally unconnected with my letter and I found this very very frustrating .
7 What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network .
8 To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate .
9 Finally we stopped at a machine knitting company and I realised what she was shopping for .
10 I woke up and grinned , remembering that it was the half term holiday and I did not have to go to school .
11 It was while I was pressing our home phone number that I remembered .
12 An Amex gold card that I suspect he ca n't use .
13 Yes , a lot was happening in 1933 , but my arrival still managed to create a bit of a stir in the ordinary , working-class South London family that I belonged to .
14 In my mind all land/open space in Edinburgh should be eligible for the Community Woodland Supplement and I find it difficult to consider a preferential strategic plan in such an urban environment .
15 My heart pounds , and my throat closes up with fear when this happens , but they have so far beaten a hasty retreat after a selection of Anna 's words , not to be found in any A-level vocabulary book that I 've ever seen .
16 I recently sang live at the Asian Pop Awards ceremony and I got a real buzz realising I was before my own people .
17 It includes an element of business use which is likely to end up in er industrial estates which is not the full spectrum of business use , back to the point I twelve er is the main generator of business use employment as I understand it .
18 Could I just start with the white paper on community care funding because I think , as he said in the introduction , it is a complex subject , erm , and it does involve a lengthy transition period , and therefore in terms of its understanding , I think it 's important that members are aware both how the money is coming to us , broadly what we 're doing with it , and , and how it is that we 've reached the conclusion that there 's a great under-funding in the , in the present proposals .
19 Quite simply , this is one of the finest recordings of the piano concerto repertoire that I have ever heard ; it has depth , clarity and a real sense of perspective .
20 or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign .
21 I just I just saw it was pure virgin olive oil and I thought oh that 'll do
22 Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun .
23 Merely providing the site will involve the destruction of two trees , which are part of the avenue , but that does n't matter to the County Council because erm they 're not responsible , they can override a tree preservation order and I think this just is morally wrong .
24 This was featured on a cardigan in an early Passap pattern book and I have used it lots of times bath as a band and a braid .
25 I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’
26 But I 'd rather if you did n't mind that you did go in and sort it out cos she said well put a cheque in the envelope with the standing order form but I mean
27 Like in mine I 've got a cur er a wicker unit thing that I stack towels on and whatever right ?
28 There are quite a few fairly minor changes to the appointment contract procedure but I have n't , I do n't pretend , intend briefing those because I think most people can read .
29 Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend .
30 Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all .
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