Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 2 | Now there have been some allegations flying around that there are people in the parliamentary Labour Party who want to get rid of that link and I want to categorically say that there is no serious figure in the Labour Party who shares that opinion there 's no one in the G M B group who takes that view there 's no one in the Shadow Cabinet and what is more , I know from my own personal experience , and my dealings with him over thirty years , that there is no greater supporter of the trades union link than John Smith himself ! |
| 3 | I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things . |
| 4 | Obviously I 'd be delighted if you choose to come this direction but I understand of course that you have other options to look at . |
| 5 | She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum |
| 6 | There was no advance planning to reach this figure and I decided at the beginning that I would not cut corners in an effort to keep within the budget . |
| 7 | ‘ I would love another child but I have to be aware of the possibility that I 'm not going to be able to have one of my own , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 9 | Now when I was preparing this evidence , I got to this point and I thought to myself , why on earth has this not happened in Richmondshire ? |
| 10 | Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague . |
| 11 | The reasons underlying that decision and the factors that my right hon. Friend and I took into account are fully set out in the letter of 1 November to the chairman of the Countryside Council for Wales , copies of which have been placed in the Library . |
| 12 | Er this is just one that I wanted some stuff and I said to a few people |
| 13 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 14 | I have not been in the House as long as the hon. Gentleman and I defer to his experience . |
| 15 | There I was , talking to people asleep this morning and I woke to the dulcet tones of talking on the radio . |
| 16 | I saw Dickie this morning and I said to him how do you let these bowlers follow through the other pitch ? |
| 17 | I am , however , open to reasoned and informed argument and I await with interest your correspondents ' blueprint for reversing our economic decline , bearing in mind that the stark choice is that we either increase our earnings or we accept a quite considerable reduction in our living standards . |
| 18 | They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes . |
| 19 | Anyway they had a , a special coupon in the Campaign this week and I said to Di I said phone this number I said and put our washing machine in , I said they 're not taking no notice . |
| 20 | He sat down on the wooden chair and I sat on the bed . |
| 21 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 22 | I watched him go in by his own back door and I hurried on home . |
| 23 | It was an interesting challenge and I responded with alacrity . |
| 24 | In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there . |
| 25 | After investigating the gaunt , rather eerie ruins of the old observatory it was too dark for further exploration and I retired to the Lochaber Club refuge hut for supper . |
| 26 | I believe these checks and balances built up over many years are essential to the maintenance of true democracy in this country and I commend to Your Lordships Amendments five , eight and eleven for those reasons . |
| 27 | We have enough racing in this country and I believe in reserving one day at least for the Lord . |
| 28 | " I do my full share of the work in this house and I wait on you . |
| 29 | That 's got a glossy leaf and I know by an elimination process it 's got to be a euonymous of some descripton . |
| 30 | NOT a perfect album by any means ( Point Blank is mere melodrama and I Wan na Marry You is a nauseous homily ) , but a breakthrough for Springsteen in terms of establishing the range of his vision . |