Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [art] [noun pl] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 2 | Just under half the teachers I spoke to broadly agreed with the two who said of this collection of questions : ‘ very establishment ’ and ‘ obviously class-biased , sex-biased and race-biased ’ . |
| 3 | In general , nearly all the Members I interviewed felt that their own lives and life style ( leaving aside their use of procedures ) had not changed greatly since the coming of television . |
| 4 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 5 | We have had our ups and downs , but I have a very great regard for the organization and great affection for the head of the Accident Investigation and prevention Section , Olof Fritsch , who , notwithstanding all the times I twisted his tail , remains for me one of the great professionals totally devoted to improving safety in the air , and a true friend . |
| 6 | What I had heard was ‘ I 'm sure it will be alright , dear ! ’ from almost all the mothers I met . |
| 7 | I was never able to establish whether she was telling the truth — virtually all the hijras I talked to shrouded the facts of their lives in a thick wrap of fantasies — but she was certainly from a middle-class background and spoke fluent English . |
| 8 | Virtually all the inmates I saw and spoke to were friendly , smiling and quite pleased to show me the work they were doing . |
| 9 | It grated on my eardrums , set my teeth on edge , shook loose all the pains I thought I had lost . |