Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear colleagues , it is my pleasure to send fraternal greetings to all delegates at the G M B Conference from the Executive Officers and Members of the T & G. In the twelve months since I last sent you our good wishes much activity has taken place within our movement . |
| 2 | He 's lost a lost of weight since I last saw him , being interviewed by Michael Aspel a few months before . |
| 3 | ‘ Jean-Paul , you have put on a lot of weight since I last saw you . |
| 4 | When Thomas Hardy was given the freedom of the borough in 1910 he made a comment of particular interest to family historians : he said that ‘ of the shops as I first recollect them [ he was born in 1840 ] not a single owner remains ; only in two or three instances does even the name remain … |
| 5 | You were hardly in a cheerful frame of mind when I first met you this morning . |
| 6 | It was the next afternoon that I first saw her , she was in an incubator . |
| 7 | She had the looks of an angel when I first married her . ’ |
| 8 | Though I was , having expected one of the great historic documents of planning , bitterly disappointed with the Plan when I first studied it , I now think that in the circumstances Abercrombie did as well as any man , of the type who can survive in planning practice , could have done . |
| 9 | She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes . |
| 10 | ‘ She was four and a half when I first saw her , ’ explained Libby . |
| 11 | It 's in his adopted home town that I first witness him . |
| 12 | The city fathers had decided to improve the site since I last encountered it . |
| 13 | Despite a growing influx of visitors , it has changed very little in the forty years since I first saw it , remaining unspoiled and unsophisticated . |
| 14 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 15 | Well , the thing is , Pop Will Eat Itself used to come down to my place when I first had it and absolutely f— the place up . |
| 16 | Not only have you given me your love , freely , but you have made me able to face life again , without fear , be able to face Mama and Papa when I next see them , enabled me to love again , with all my heart . |
| 17 | I remember that when Philip and I first made our way through London to a shop which was depicted in an advertisement , in spite of the crowds on either hand all along our route , in spite of the full directions of our elders , we were as much elated by our achievement as if it had been an arduous discovery made after a journey in a desert . |
| 18 | In fact I 've scarcely been to bed before one o'clock any night since I first realized he was dyslexic . |
| 19 | When I first started to smoke a cigarette , I felt ill but I kept on because everyone else was doing it , but with sniffing glue when I first tried it I enjoyed it , it 's something I did enjoy , that 's the reason I started anyway . ’ |
| 20 | A large studio shot showed Euturpia Kennedy at the age when I first met her , shy hope not yet driven from her eyes . |
| 21 | Yes they look like erm yeah I thought they were gourds when I first saw them . |
| 22 | ‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 23 | You know , I 've had a bitter , hard life since I last heard your voice , and if I 've survived , it 's all because of you ! ’ |
| 24 | According to Dave , Des has ‘ doubled in size since I last saw him ’ and has settled in well to his quarantine kennel life . |
| 25 | I think I was a little disappointed by the countryside in the north of Lewis when I first encountered its bleak wilderness of peat bog , but after a while I was to know and love the open moors . |
| 26 | ‘ Nona was only a kid when I first knew her . |
| 27 | Isobel , I loved Algeria when I first saw it ; but the poverty — the attitudes , the intolerances . |
| 28 | On a personal note , you will recall that Betsan and I first met you when we were employed by the National Trust at Plas y Rhiw . |
| 29 | She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her . |
| 30 | An hour after I last saw him , I spot Anthony Sampson again . |