Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She is also setting an example in these hard economic times and I think we should respect the Princess for this . ’ |
| 2 | " Lift that bloody foot like I told you ! " |
| 3 | Thirty pairs of eyes stared with unwavering concentration as I dipped my hand into the all-too-familiar breakfast of slightly sour rice and salted fish . |
| 4 | I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable . |
| 5 | I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it . |
| 6 | They snapped like burned-through twigs and I threw them away . |
| 7 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 8 | I had been something like eighteen years in the ordained ministry before I preached my first sermon on Mary . |
| 9 | I thought , ‘ this will make the carrying of the tea to the remaining resident members of my family an uncommonly pleasant event , because they will all smile upon me instead of producing the customary resentful grunt when I stir them from sleep , and they will say ‘ Good morning , dear husband/father ( as the case might be ) , and they will reach under their beds for the gift-wrapped goodies so lovingly prepared and concealed the night before , and handing me their tributes they will voice their gratitude to God that I have survived so far , and will express the pious hope that they may be able to repeat such sentiments on this same date for many a year to come . |
| 10 | They hand-made him this acoustic guitar and I thought it was really beautiful , so I thought I 'd like something like that . |
| 11 | That moustache is not an English moustache , the flower in the button-hole is from some foreign field and I fancy he does not care for his pickled egg . |
| 12 | It only has the force of a recommended practice whereas I believe it should have the full force of a standard , but at least it is there and perhaps in the fullness of time it may attain higher status . |
| 13 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 14 | ‘ I like the physical aspect of British football and I feel my game is suited to the Premier League . ’ |
| 15 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 16 | ‘ I am carrying a load of wiring and electronic equipment so I knew they would be interested in it , but I am completely in favour of this type of search . ’ |
| 17 | It may well be a social skill but I think it 's |
| 18 | Coun Len Douglass said : ‘ He has obviously been told to stay away by the Labour group but he was there in a civic capacity and I find it very sad . ’ |
| 19 | Old one old ones just used which was at the bulb in every hen house and it was free range and I think there was nothing better than that . |
| 20 | ‘ Graeme has the ability to become a top-class performer and I rate him highly . |
| 21 | I have a granddaughter now going up to Burnt Mill and I think myself , they could n't have done any better in the grammar school . |
| 22 | ‘ It was an exciting record but I thought it was badly made . |
| 23 | I know my body bulge is in the wrong places and I know I have signs of ageing , I was reminded even this morning by a close friend about my grey hairs , which I do n't give too hoops about |
| 24 | I also understand from meetings , I 'm meeting a group of social workers as I call them , that are dealing with the people with learning difficulties , erm , these are at present taking place in the Castle Hall . |
| 25 | I strongly agree with my hon. Friend and I join him in paying tribute to the management of the health service in his part of the country . |
| 26 | You know , it 's a funny thing , when you get on stage in front of an audience — you become a different person and I think everybody experiences that . |
| 27 | And no funny stuff or I blow your buddy 's balls off , ’ Sam says to Mark . |
| 28 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 29 | I pick up my old self and I see it 's silly . |
| 30 | He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance . |