Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] [verb] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously . |
| 2 | In the 5th edition we find the following footnote to 270 : ‘ In order to maintain a fixed and measured standard for developing the power of liquid medicines , multiplied experience and careful observation have led me to adopt two succussions for each phial , in preference to the greater number formerly employed ( by which the medicines were too highly potentized ) . |
| 3 | This year their policy 's has and Direct Line have sent me a quote for two hundred . |
| 4 | Their pompous promises and grandiloquent phrases failed to convince me so I quickly took the air in the graveyard where all the wolfs-heads , villains and counterfeit men hid from the law . |
| 5 | My contempt is aimed at other and real people , those who by their looks and whispers and complicated innuendoes have forced me to write what I had no desire to write . |
| 6 | I hasten to add that the North West , Yorkshire and Southern Divisions have notified me of their annual events and members will be most welcome on these occasions as well . |
| 7 | I had met Hugo at a party and unforeseen and overwhelming emotions had consumed me . |
| 8 | My accident and stunned expression seemed to excuse me , however . |
| 9 | It was unbearable that the gallery girl should imagine that I belonged to Syl , that his glances and suggestive remarks had ensnared me . |