Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 2 | But in due course I discovered that the local historian had done very little actual firsthand gathering of data himself : he was a wealthy man and had employed a number of impecunious schoolteachers to be his ‘ research assistants ’ . |
| 3 | Only his politics are bad , about which in due course I did ‘ warn ’ . |
| 4 | In due course I will answer it for you , that and many other things that I know have quizzed you these past years . ’ |
| 5 | In due course I left Varndean and went to do business studies at Sussex University . |
| 6 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 7 | Yeah , sorry Chairman I must |
| 8 | This is the strange storm I warned you of … |
| 9 | The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen . |
| 10 | ‘ All that money I thought he was spending on you , he was spending on drugs . |
| 11 | Wednesday after playschool I said to you I can afford that jumper I 've got twenty seven pound |
| 12 | And personally try each bit I fear . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I like the inside lanes , and if I get the right lane I think I can go under 20 seconds . |
| 15 | that cow I 'll run down the stairs quick enough when the signal comes , salter 's away seemed to love throwing it out do n't they ? . |
| 16 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 17 | And every time I came to that bit I jerked up in my chair and Miss Ross shouted at me . |
| 18 | ‘ That bit I could do without ’ . |
| 19 | Yes I , I know that bit I did n't know you had to do something to stop the |
| 20 | In discussing economic support I indicated that the net flow continues to be from older to younger generations and normally this is not reversed . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's the sweetest story I ever heard , ’ Zeke says . |
| 22 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 23 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 24 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 25 | Again I I showed all due diligence I could do in the situation . |
| 26 | Listen to that noise I 'm making ! |
| 27 | Stop making that noise I do n't like it ! |
| 28 | But I do like that hedging I think it 's beautiful when the red berries are on it |
| 29 | Conserving what little money I had was therefore my number-one priority . |
| 30 | With what little money I had I would try to wear unusual suits or hats , learning a combination of subtlety and the unexpected in order to gain attention . |