Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is one particular marathon runner I have always liked and that 's Grete Waitz . |
| 2 | He 's the best striker I 've ever worked with , I just wished he could do that sort of thing when he played for England . |
| 3 | ‘ Saunders is the best natural striker I 've ever worked with . |
| 4 | It was his goal that knocked United out of the Coca-Cola Cup , and Atkinson added : ‘ Saunders is the best natural striker I 've ever worked with . |
| 5 | Limpar , on his way back from international duty with Sweden in Oslo , told me : ‘ Shearer is top class , a striker I rate very highly . |
| 6 | He scored his first goal of the season on Wednesday — and Ndlovu , who is rated by Coventry manager Bobby Gould as ‘ the most exciting young striker I have ever worked with ’ , believes that 's the first of many . |
| 7 | ‘ In approaching the wife 's defence I have regretfully come to the conclusion that the judge has overlooked two critical points of distinction between her case and that of the husband . |
| 8 | ‘ You have the most glorious hair I 've ever seen ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You have the most beautiful hair I have ever seen . ’ |
| 10 | McGinley rates the 11% growth in like-for-like sales ‘ a pretty good performance in the deepest recession I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 11 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 12 | In the story I have just told , I explain how self-image dominated my life for a time . |
| 13 | This story , told from a child 's point of view , from the limited perspective of a small Welsh town , far away from the fighting , brought the sadness of war closer than any story I have ever heard . |
| 14 | ‘ It is the only beautiful story I have ever heard , ’ said Cyril . |
| 15 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 16 | But on this case I go directly to my superior , Colonel Yashkin . |
| 17 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 18 | A nut case I know exactly how you feel . |
| 19 | If something 's going to happen , it will happen , but in my case I take damned good care to check everything out first . |
| 20 | I 've been called a dragon in my time , Shelley , but in my case I 've knowingly been an old crosspatch sometimes . ’ |
| 21 | you know they sit there going what is a normal case , this is a normal case I 've never seen anything else before . |
| 22 | In this case I consider particularly that there are , there are a great many imponderants . |
| 23 | But it makes the strongest case I have ever read for reassessing the role of the post-war welfare state in the cultural field , and will force even those who are not convinced by his arguments to sharpen up their own . |
| 24 | This is quite the worst case I have ever heard of.It 's an outrage and proves that the government is quite wrong to claim that the health service is improving |
| 25 | In any case I have never , during more than fifty years of travel , anticipated falling ill . |
| 26 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 27 | I feel a little as I felt when the only racehorse I 've ever owned ran at Lincoln . " |
| 28 | Well , to be fair , that 's not always the case , and in this instance I 've definitely been forced into something of a rethink . |
| 29 | Er , and in this instance I have consistently erm , asked that we , we do all we can , to allow us to spend our capital receipts , and the fact that we had the holiday last year was er , er , of of great benefit to this this council , erm , there are er times when we should er perhaps be putting money into reserves or paying off debt , but this council should be allowed to make those decisions rather |
| 30 | Chairman I move formally . |