Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 2 | MENZIESHILL secured the Division I title in the Scottish Indoor League for the third successive year when old rivals MIM beat second-placed Kelburne 7-6 at the Dick McTaggart Centre in Dundee . |
| 3 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 4 | In Cardiff I went to the local elementary school and in 1939 , in the competitive scholarship examination , won a special place at Cardiff High School . |
| 5 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 6 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |
| 7 | Of course I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the level of violence during the past two or three months . |
| 8 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 9 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 10 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 11 | For my work experience I went to the local primary school where I was a classroom helper with the reception class . |
| 12 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 13 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 14 | When Paul 's score at the 17th came on they were close to erupting , so while Nick signed his card I stood beside the 18th green . |
| 15 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 16 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
| 17 | So anyway I got to and I was amazed at the opposition I got from the two or three staff shunters at . |
| 18 | But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so |
| 19 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 20 | In a later chapter I refer to the modern notions of witchcraft and satanism which receive such wide publicity today . |
| 21 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 22 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 23 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 24 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 25 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 26 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 27 | I consider the and figure should be discounted down to eighteen , which is the figure I adopt for the whole life multiplier . |
| 28 | When it began to grow dark I noticed through the little connecting window that he did n't put his light on ; this alarmed me , somehow . |
| 29 | As regards finding more ‘ absolute ’ tempo area indications for automatic mechanical instruments : there are mechanical noises on the recordings I made of the 1793 and undated Niemecz mechanical organs associated with the turning of these instruments ' flywheels . |
| 30 | The first of the three conceptions of law I introduced in the last chapter , which I called conventionalism , shares the general ambition of the popular slogan , though the interpretation it builds is more subtle in two ways . |