Example sentences of "the [noun] i [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acoustic I use is a Yamaha APX12 — a stereo acoustic twelve-string . |
| 2 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 3 | It started off all in Melior , with the text — the text I think was in Melior or Melior tells me that the text was originally in Melior with ordinary Melior headings , then when it appeared it was Nimrod with Melior bold . |
| 4 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 5 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 6 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 7 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 8 | I BELIEVE the decision I made was commonsense — the right one in the circumstances . |
| 9 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 10 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 11 | The Squirrel I flew was appropriate for the task , being owned privately by a pilot who bought it new and had flown just 60 hours before it was introduced to me . |
| 12 | Apart from a very small number of older key texts , the literature I cite is purposely recent literature , which can of course always be used to track the historical contributions , if the reader so wishes . |
| 13 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 14 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 15 | ‘ Funny I 've never seen it before , the times I 've been in your Gran 's house , ’ he said . |
| 16 | In all the times I 've been down here , I have never heard that sound before . |
| 17 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 18 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 19 | But the experience I had was fantastic and it did n't take long before my salary was considerably more than that . |
| 20 | I suppose I wan na be a bit careful that the experience I get is n't too specialist as well . |
| 21 | Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece . |
| 22 | ‘ The difficulty I have is proving it . ’ |
| 23 | The processor I use is an unbadged 386SX IBM clone with a SuperVGA display . |
| 24 | The counsel I used was an exceptionally suitable person , Sir Joseph Molony QC , the son of a Northern Ireland judge . |
| 25 | There may well be standard poodle in the Irish Water Spaniel but the Newfoundland I mean is a big heavy dog . |
| 26 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 27 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 28 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 29 | Apart from being sick and having to keep going to the loo I loved being pregnant . |
| 30 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |