Example sentences of "[art] [adj] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
2 | The least I would expect would be an immediate invitation from the Prime Minister , come and see me , because if it was happening on the streets of any city in Britain and the MP stood up and said what I 've said I think he would be in Downing Street within the night . |
3 | and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance . |
4 | Erm the cheapest I can get them is about two hundred pounds , the fastest I can get them is forty-eight-hour delivery . |
5 | The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag . |
6 | the actual I 'll looking up see if I can see mother Are quakes stronger on the moon than on the earth ? |
7 | If the worst comes to the worst I can do without that . |
8 | So what 's the worst I can get , at the end of a telephone session , the worst is that I 'll end up with three appointments . |
9 | The more I can do it , the be the more I we the ha ha ha ha the happier I 'll be . |
10 | Now on F oh sorry on Monday the seventh er oh sorry on Friday the fourth I would like you to phone into this this er phone in to head office ask for Publications . |
11 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
12 | Say you 're the nearest I can find in the book , Filton I should try . |
13 | I think that is the nearest I could get to the orange . |
14 | In the first I shall review activity within the Engineering Branch before I took up my post within the MOD . |
15 | The first I 'll know , I expect , is when he walks through that door . ’ |
16 | The first I would label the ‘ naturalist ’ approach , and the classic British example is the highly influential work of Havelock Ellis , especially his majestic Studies in the Psychology of Sex . |
17 | The words happened to be the first I could enunciate . |
18 | Michael said to me , the first thing he said to me when I came here , that 's the first I 'd do , knock it down he said , it 's , it 's dangerous it 's not . |
19 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed , ‘ but all the same I shall walk you home . |
20 | Well look , look at the birds I are n't they sweet all the same I shall buy a nesting box next er next year . |
21 | The north London accent is exactly the same I used to live there for years . |
22 | Johnson , just debating , we 're getting on to the whole idea of Johnson 's world and the link though it worked out the same I 'd say . |
23 | I asked , mopping his face with some tepid water — the coldest I could find . |
24 | Yeah , I just want to get the emphasis back onto that one first , and the products , we accepted it and we 've got to live with it at some point in time , but the longer I can put that off , the better . |
25 | Then I used to go round the fucking I 'd say why did n't you waken me be |
26 | Of her forty-one Landseers , his group portrait ‘ Windsor Castle in modern times ’ and ‘ Isaac Van Amburgh and his animals ’ are the two I would pick for my imaginary show . |
27 | My preferance would be to play either Strachan and Rocky together with Speed in the Batty role , this would give him the opportunity to go forward if required plus utilise his good ball winning skills or if i had to choose between the two I would pick Rocky providing he was fit . |
28 | Erm the cheapest I can get them is about two hundred pounds , the fastest I can get them is forty-eight-hour delivery . |
29 | We 'll see , ’ is the best I 'll give her . |
30 | I might fool the fans , but the best I can hope for this season must be second from bottom and the third preliminary round of the FA Cup . |