Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the odd occasions I met him , I felt that he 'd adopted all these trappings to keep off a world with which he could not cope . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , apart from the potted shrimps I think I can assure you , Inspector , that one way and another all the other dishes were shared . ’ |
| 3 | Start by playing these combinations with one note then apply some of the melodic permutations I gave you in part 1 of this series . |
| 4 | I mean the Scottish boys I mean they always wanted the big end of the stick you see ? |
| 5 | I wondered whether he preferred the sexual experiences I imagined he must be having with all sorts of men to the one we shared . |
| 6 | Former Top 40 presenter Tony Blackburn said : ‘ In the old days I think it meant something to be the Christmas No. 1 and there would be great excitement in the run-up to the last chart . |
| 7 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 8 | In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position . |
| 9 | Hm , quite like the white ones I think I probably like the white ones better Am 's , let's have the white ones . |
| 10 | But as I painted her stomach and breasts in the little kisses I knew she loved , biting and nibbling her all over , trying to relax her , she was still pondering on Changez . |
| 11 | Look at that little boy there in the leather coat and the little glasses I think it looks lovely . |
| 12 | Yes I would agree , would favour that because I think it would force another issue , if , if the independent rule too often against the deferred pensioners I suspect they 'd organise themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ In the present circumstances I felt it … safer … to have the balance of the Council know of my plans . |
| 14 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 15 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 16 | In the above circumstances I believe you are being paid correctly . |
| 17 | Cast your mind back to Day 1 and your first attempt at the elementary exercises I asked you to perform . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , compared to the leave they get in the big houses I suppose it is ; half a day a month for some of them , and then no leave at all if they 're known to come from the workhouse , or one of the settlements . |
| 19 | They all try to get you both but er I have decided the other things I mean I tell Patrick and |
| 20 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 21 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 22 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 23 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 24 | I was having a War at the time — the Mussels against the Dead Flies I think it was — and while I was in the library poring over the book and trying to keep my eyes open , soaking up all those damn silly Imperial measurements , the wind would be blowing my fly armies over half the island and the sea would first sink the mussel shells in their high pools and then cover them with sand . |
| 25 | if we , if there was no nuclear weapons I reckon we would of , probably would of been at war with Russia now |