Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] i [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Well no , I mean , a tha even tha that one the other day with the eight workers I mean it |
| 3 | ‘ Well , apart from the potted shrimps I think I can assure you , Inspector , that one way and another all the other dishes were shared . ’ |
| 4 | I mean the Scottish boys I mean they always wanted the big end of the stick you see ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I say ‘ the wife ’ with impunity as Doreen is one of the few wives I know who actually calls herself that . |
| 8 | ‘ He is one of the few teetotallers I know who can be entertaining after dinner . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 11 | In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position . |
| 12 | The stupidest things I do he calls witty . |
| 13 | Hm , quite like the white ones I think I probably like the white ones better Am 's , let's have the white ones . |
| 14 | Look at that little boy there in the leather coat and the little glasses I think it looks lovely . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | In the above circumstances I believe you are being paid correctly . |
| 20 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 21 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 22 | ‘ Well , compared to the leave they get in the big houses I suppose it is ; half a day a month for some of them , and then no leave at all if they 're known to come from the workhouse , or one of the settlements . |
| 23 | They all try to get you both but er I have decided the other things I mean I tell Patrick and |
| 24 | And the two girls I beg your pardon ? |
| 25 | The two voices I want us to concentrate on are ‘ the laughing voice ’ and ‘ the Gothic voice ’ . |
| 26 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 27 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 28 | I was having a War at the time — the Mussels against the Dead Flies I think it was — and while I was in the library poring over the book and trying to keep my eyes open , soaking up all those damn silly Imperial measurements , the wind would be blowing my fly armies over half the island and the sea would first sink the mussel shells in their high pools and then cover them with sand . |