Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [noun] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a further few days I brought my suitcases up from London . |
| 2 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 3 | Here 's a nice letter at last about the second this year I think which is n't bad going ! |
| 4 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 5 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 6 | ‘ All that money I thought he was spending on you , he was spending on drugs . |
| 7 | After all that trauma I think I deserve this do you ? |
| 8 | And yet … we 'd had such a good few days I suppose I wanted to keep the mood going . |
| 9 | And they looked like that and I says , what , I says , they 've caused these men to earn all this money I says they 're earning more money than and that 's all you 're gon na offer me ? |
| 10 | ‘ All this time I know you and you never once suggest it . |
| 11 | All this time I said nothing to anyone of what I truly felt . |
| 12 | Now , all this time I held my temper , even when he turned on the tears which he could do , playing skilfully on his little-boy manner which elicited great sympathy from the women . |
| 13 | ‘ All these years I denied my love . |
| 14 | Basically , that means maintaining quality work , but easing down to give my body time to recover and possibly even occasionally allowing myself the luxury of collapsing on the settee , falling asleep and dreaming of all those races I wish I could still win . |
| 15 | All those years I amassed it , and polished it with my mind : for the Jews ' teeth . |
| 16 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |
| 17 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 18 | ‘ Do you know , all those years I watched my Kate yearn for you , it used to amaze me . |
| 19 | In those few seconds I saw myself returned to Leeds like a misrouted parcel … |
| 20 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 21 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 22 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
| 23 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 24 | In defence of that same honesty I think he could be shrewd enough , and ruthless enough , too . |
| 25 | Mmm , maybe , but IF there is any more signings I doubt they will be MAJOR . |
| 26 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 27 | For the next few weeks I reported my unimportant news to the office . |
| 28 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 29 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 30 | They 've got most most times I think you 'll have to be unemployed for six months . |