Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile . |
| 2 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
| 3 | Mr Langford has left the matter open until Friday in case I change my mind , but I wo n't . |
| 4 | By using the text of Scripture I believe there are five major elements which enter into a Christian view of political economy — the understanding of Creation and Fall , the political economy of Israel , the coming of the Kingdom and the teaching of Jesus , the life of the Early Church and the eschatological hope . |
| 5 | , look at the sentence below , will the management charges greatly increase , the answers no because time has shown the management charges rise at a rate below the level of inflation I suggest it to you to the ordinary person , they would think that the management charges there meant the costs that are listed above see |
| 6 | Mr Chairman this little job will save a bit of time I think we 've had er an amendment set by the , the Labour group for work demands through requests er , we want er support er what Simon what Simon is making here so we er we 're making here so we erm small |
| 7 | It heals us of depression and sadness , as if they were intrinsic to the kind of person I believe myself to be . |
| 8 | I do n't know , I want to find out if I do really believe what I say I do and if I want the kind of life I say I do , and the only way to do that seems to be to get right away and try a straight career for a bit , just to see how I react . ’ |
| 9 | It was a kind of lifestyle I knew nothing about , having always lived in South Kensington . |
| 10 | As we wandered about , we were treated with the kind of curiosity I imagine one reserves for a chance meeting with people from the planet Zarg . |
| 11 | This is not the kind of thing I want my children to read . ’ |
| 12 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 13 | We will see whether this spider exists or not she said firmly and I warn you Mary-Lou if this is a again a trick and there is no spider you will go to Miss Potts for punishment I wash my hands of you . |
| 14 | With a sigh of relief I dropped my hands , because instead of Dad lying there there was the attic door which had fallen in such a way that it was wedging the door back , trapping me where I was . |
| 15 | Erm and that type of stand I mean it that in a very restricted area have n't you |
| 16 | Sometimes the grown-ups say ‘ well , look , this is just not the type of thing I want my child even to know about . |
| 17 | The wall charts were the type of project I felt I had trained to tackle , and this was my first major commission involving both botany and zoology . |
| 18 | It is this degree of concentration I want you to work towards , using the haiku both as a point of departure and as a discipline you frequently return to . |
| 19 | The problem was that Kier had friends in the town council and , as Campbell pointed out , ‘ my eneemys here have wrote to My Lord Grange ; if the man is sett at liberty I begg it may be by y[ou]r interest , and that you 'll be so good as write me so , for it will do me service in this place ’ . |
| 20 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 21 | And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had |
| 22 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 23 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
| 24 | See , my idea originally was that cos it comes back from when I used to go in the in the Blue Anchor in Lancaster after work I mean we had everybody in there ! |
| 25 | and physics and all that sort of stuff I mean I |
| 26 | She said sharply , ‘ My romantic novels enabled you girls to have a carefree life , the sort of life I wish I 'd been able to give your father . ’ |
| 27 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 28 | Erm but at that sort of price I think he 's opposable . |
| 29 | ‘ If you 're away to glory in some sort of wilderness I suppose I have n't much option — but I must say that this is mighty strange — ’ |
| 30 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |