Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] i [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , since I do not seem to be the owner of a super-fit body I thought it best this year to enter an event that required the minimum of movement . |
| 2 | Using a similar approach I categorised my own activities as illustrated in Table 1 . |
| 3 | The little girls were still watching me , now rather doubtfully , I thought , so with a mighty effort I changed my whole concept of what I was , in order to respond . |
| 4 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 5 | As chairman of the recently established development committee of this respected national association I enclose its first appeal brochure , in the hope that your Trustees will support our important apolitical and expanding remit . |
| 6 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a good job I saw you first , then ! ’ |
| 8 | " But it 's a good thing I gave her that extra lavage yesterday . " |
| 9 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 10 | To my great annoyance I found myself jealous . |
| 11 | Though some of these reasons are currently out of fashion in discussions of political authority I believe they all have their role to play , though some are more important in some societies than in others . |
| 12 | However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market . |
| 13 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 14 | As a gay man I find your sudden input of gay advertising patronising . |
| 15 | Con seemed oblivious of it but in the enclosed space I found it overpowering . |
| 16 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 17 | DOUGLAS BROWN J. This appeal is in relation to the child who is a boy of 14 , nearly 15 , and , as judgment is given in open court I make it clear that there must be no publication of any part of these proceedings which would lead to the identification of this boy . |
| 18 | For a loathsome instant I felt her awkward quivering weight on my back as she found her feet , and her voice saying … |
| 19 | Cos e the other day I left her forty pound dad . |