Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By all the normal rules I should have pulled away before that , but if the road was clear I could let things get more serious before doing anything , and if it was blocked it was already too late . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I wo n't be winning many races , but I 'm reasonably confident of being able to keep up with any wounded snails I might encounter . ’ |
| 5 | Eleven bloody hours I 've driven today . |
| 6 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 7 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 8 | Oh eleven shillings I think it was eleven shillings a week . |
| 9 | Now he , he had about he about seven or eight kids I think , he must have done , yeah . |
| 10 | Le Rue the band are one of the tightest and most cohesive units I 've seen . |
| 11 | ‘ The first friendly words I 've heard all day . |
| 12 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
| 13 | For those eight months I wanted a disciplined one-track existence and a focused mind . |
| 14 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 15 | Yeah she 'd been in there about seven or eight months I think . |
| 16 | Sore eyes I may have , but at least I am not blind and can still darn my own stockings . |
| 17 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 18 | If you produce the right designs I 'll use them . |
| 19 | I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle . |
| 20 | But of all the damn fighters I ever did see , |
| 21 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 22 | Even then the kids were calling him Crazy Jake , and I do n't know how many bloody noses I got in the playground , fighting to shut 'em up . ’ |
| 23 | It is an observable fact that the greatest drivers I have known have all been highly safety conscious : a sign that their minds ruled their instincts . |
| 24 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 25 | ‘ Groups like King Crimson were around when I was about 17 , and I suppose the earliest progressive British groups I would have listened to were Procol Harum , The Nice , et cetera . |
| 26 | Used to have to eat all sorts of things at different times I used to try and eat apples as opposed to , you know , sort of , something fairly healthy but |
| 27 | I remember a man with a family of several young children who worked at the plant saying at one of the first local public meetings I addressed that it would certainly change his mind about nuclear power if the link with leukaemia was substantiated . |
| 28 | In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him that is formless . |
| 29 | I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary . |
| 30 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |