Example sentences of "[noun] i [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum . |
| 2 | Son taught it to me , in case I ever got a Hungarian . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I still have a wife , but there 's no need for you to worry your pretty little head about it . |
| 4 | But when I learned to play guitar I just got a book of chords and learned them and just sort of thrashed around . |
| 5 | If that 's the Sue I once bought a drink for — out of pity — in a certain low-rent wine bar she frequents ( Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women hogging the tables ) , then I do n't think she 's telling the full story . |
| 6 | It 's significant that when I get home at night and want to listen to a record for pleasure I usually choose a disc made over 30 years ago — the message survives the medium to an astonishing extent in the best old records . |
| 7 | At the beginning of the winter I always feel a bit reluctant about working outside until I get my long johns on . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , to a large degree I still scoop a lot out for the rhythm sound , but for lead I add a bit of mid . |
| 9 | ‘ As a child I always wore a jet necklace and cross , ’ recalls Mabel McMillan . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh that 's all right , ’ she answered blithely , adding quite without thinking , ‘ In my job I often collect a scratch or two from some over-exuberant canine . ’ |
| 11 | When I was young rugby was the love of my life , but these days I just manage a game of squash now and then . |
| 12 | Through my involvement with scuba diving I recently encountered a diving and wet work glove called ‘ Xerotech ’ . |
| 13 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 14 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 15 | I will , says I. I near had a heart attack thinkin' of you down here under his nose ! ’ |
| 16 | At precisely midnight I lightly prick a lobworm onto the size 6 hook , making sure the hook is only an inch away from the tail-end of the lob , for I have found that I hook more carp when the lobs are impaled in this way . |
| 17 | Last week I even had a letter from Yugoslavia asking for a donation towards Disabled Esperantists ! |
| 18 | A. T. I once did a month on the canal bank , looking after Tate and Lyle 's coal that was brought in when there was a strike on . |
| 19 | For works on paper I often use a mixture of techniques applied in successive layers and these might include gouache , tempera , watercolour with acrylic applied as a final layer . |
| 20 | The system is regularly conducted in the following manner : Every Monday morning I either recite a piece of prose or poetry from Enfield 's Speaker , or present a letter . |
| 21 | I sometimes , this is what I said Marion I just feel a letter does n't pressurise them . |
| 22 | As part of my training to become a breastfeeding counsellor I recently attended a Study Day on weaning , organized by NCT Rugby branch . |
| 23 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm in such a tearing hurry I just grab a nappy and bottle on the run as I head out of the door . ’ |
| 24 | The Minister is aware that when I received that letter I immediately tabled a question on the matter , and had subsequent correspondence with her fellow Under-Secretary of State , who has been most helpful and concerned . |
| 25 | In the end I too became a partner in the company . |
| 26 | As a matter of principle I always approach a piece from the purely musical side . |
| 27 | Concomitant symptoms are symptoms not directly related to but arising at the same time as , the main complaint such as a headache with diarrhoea or cold sores with a fever — things which are repeatedly associated , so that the patient might say ‘ Whenever I get this problem I always get a stomach upset ’ or whatever it may be . |
| 28 | The first time I just heard a sort of brassy actor 's voice with a bit of Northern in it , so I apologized and said it was a wrong number . |
| 29 | The first time I ever saw a skinhead haircut & Crombie on the same person was in 1978 or 9 . |
| 30 | In fact I still possess a tape of the GFE performing some pretty oddball chamber pieces of Mason 's , with titles like Dead Swan in Bolshoi Pit Incident , Slug Tease and McGonagle 's School Bus Rumpus . |