Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one in the Marine Corps taught me how to run a covert operation ’ said North , ruefully , at his trial . |
| 2 | Then the old lady took me firmly by the arm and led me into the bathroom . |
| 3 | ‘ I have the map that the old man gave me today , ’ said Giles . |
| 4 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
| 5 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |
| 6 | The following morning saw me back at the surgery in order to collect not only my screwdriver but also the death certificate , duly signed by two doctors ( yes , they had managed to find the mortuary ) , without which I could not obtain a Registration of Death certificate , without which Nigel could not be cremated . |
| 7 | The prowl-car boys handed me downstairs and gave me the hands-flat-against-the-roof-of-the-car routine while they frisked me . |
| 8 | The chief magistrate watched me intently as the prosecutor , a blundering serjeant-at-law , failed to prove I had any grievance against the Ralembergs and could not proffer any motive for the crime . |
| 9 | The touch of the hard floor brought me back to reality . |
| 10 | Then I got back my artillery , and the subdued Jackson drove me back to town . |
| 11 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 12 | But it did n't move too swiftly over the rocky soil , and I began to doubt if it would reach me before the deadly rain finished me off . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 14 | It tormented me beyond all endurance , while at the same time the awful silence of the terrible prison weighed me down . |
| 15 | Eventually The Fat Controller pulled me up in front of a viciously scalped hedge of box . |
| 16 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 17 | I always avoid the red ones entails I always avoid the scarlet ones |
| 18 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |
| 19 | Thereafter , the coastal scenery reminded me increasingly of lowland Scotland , fields and hedges lying close to the shore . |
| 20 | The precise reason escapes me now , lost perhaps in the flurry of activity that followed . |
| 21 | The big guy hit me just the one time . |
| 22 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 23 | ‘ English groups are coming here to make records — they say the Liffeyside rocks ! ’ the young man told me enthusiastically . |
| 24 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 25 | Got away with it because the other bobbies saw me home and signed off for me . |
| 26 | By now most of the other girls found me extremely odd , but they were easily cowed by my outbursts of sarcasm . |
| 27 | The week-long shower drives me up ladders |
| 28 | But the whole experience left me ruefully feeling that it had perhaps been a mistake to publish a report about them . |
| 29 | ’ There- massive unemployment , the whole thing makes me really sad . ’ |
| 30 | The whole restaurant cheered me on as I fought my way out into the night . |