Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I bought indoor-plants and was given indoor plants , and one of the indoor plants I expended my energy on was the fern with the bright , shiny leaves and the indestructible appearance bought that day when I had suffered the apocalypse . |
| 2 | On the odd occasions I met him , I felt that he 'd adopted all these trappings to keep off a world with which he could not cope . |
| 3 | ‘ Whatever good will there is , ’ wrote Moore in December , ‘ and among the lower orders I believe there is a good deal , is taken no advantage of . ’ |
| 4 | Well no , I mean , a tha even tha that one the other day with the eight workers I mean it |
| 5 | ‘ Well , apart from the potted shrimps I think I can assure you , Inspector , that one way and another all the other dishes were shared . ’ |
| 6 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 7 | Start by playing these combinations with one note then apply some of the melodic permutations I gave you in part 1 of this series . |
| 8 | As I walked back through the ballroom past the seated guests I saw my wife , daughter and son waving and smiling and waved back , relieved that it was all over . |
| 9 | I mean the Scottish boys I mean they always wanted the big end of the stick you see ? |
| 10 | I wondered whether he preferred the sexual experiences I imagined he must be having with all sorts of men to the one we shared . |
| 11 | Former Top 40 presenter Tony Blackburn said : ‘ In the old days I think it meant something to be the Christmas No. 1 and there would be great excitement in the run-up to the last chart . |
| 12 | And Keith is one of the few Englishmen I know who really likes Spencer , the rest dismiss him as representative of an imperial , conservative , rural English idyll . |
| 13 | I say ‘ the wife ’ with impunity as Doreen is one of the few wives I know who actually calls herself that . |
| 14 | ‘ He is one of the few teetotallers I know who can be entertaining after dinner . ’ |
| 15 | And one of the last holidays I took , and I was on my own , I went to the United States for , and Canada for er the , the six weeks I think it was or eight weeks . |
| 16 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 17 | In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position . |
| 18 | The stupidest things I do he calls witty . |
| 19 | Hm , quite like the white ones I think I probably like the white ones better Am 's , let's have the white ones . |
| 20 | The three corpses I studied there had the noose placed in the same spot . |
| 21 | But as I painted her stomach and breasts in the little kisses I knew she loved , biting and nibbling her all over , trying to relax her , she was still pondering on Changez . |
| 22 | Look at that little boy there in the leather coat and the little glasses I think it looks lovely . |
| 23 | I 'm having that delivered but the little items I bought myself . |
| 24 | Yes I would agree , would favour that because I think it would force another issue , if , if the independent rule too often against the deferred pensioners I suspect they 'd organise themselves . |
| 25 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 26 | From the many letters I receive I know how popular my teddy patterns have become and so I have done two special seasonable designs , this one depicting a teddy pulling a sledge full of gifts and for the next issue two teddies … well , perhaps you had better buy the magazine to find out for yourself ! |
| 27 | ‘ In the present circumstances I felt it … safer … to have the balance of the Council know of my plans . |
| 28 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 29 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 30 | In the above circumstances I believe you are being paid correctly . |