Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen . |
| 2 | Secondly , that it is politically naive , because such an argument could be said to justify the kind of political move I have just mentioned , in which some institutions of higher education might be denied research funding . |
| 3 | All I want now is to get this 'ere wallet into the mitts of that geezer I do n't like the look of . ’ |
| 4 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 5 | Well there 's no difference top and bottom of that bed I do n't think . |
| 6 | My infidelity is at last exposed — all because of that Casebook I opened up , revealing some of the highlights of my 40 years as the Mirror 's Marje . |
| 7 | In the light of that brutality I do n't think we need concern ourselves about gentility , spurious or otherwise . |
| 8 | In 200 acres of fresh plough I saw hardly any earthworms at all . |
| 9 | As it brought me an endless supply of free wallop I played along with this . |
| 10 | And I can't — I can't-for a length of brown satin I did n't even steal . |
| 11 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |
| 12 | ‘ Just because I happen to be President of this company I do n't play the Great White Chief , ’ he was fond of saying . |
| 13 | ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’ |
| 14 | WHETHER HEROIN is at the root of this unreliability I do n't know for sure , nor am I about to proscribe the freedom — or is that stupidity — of anyone to take whatever substance they choose to take , be it alcohol , tobacco , heroin or carpet cleaner . |
| 15 | At the beginning of this chapter I noted how the distinctions made between political systems often emerged from current political conflicts and preoccupations , and this feature is very much in evidence in the political sociology of recent decades . |
| 16 | At the end of this month I hand over the care of the diocese to Bishop John Crowley . |
| 17 | Kurt Masur conducted one of the finest ‘ live ’ performances of this piece I have ever heard when he conducted it with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Nottingham during an English tour a few years ago . |
| 18 | What the psychiatrists or psychoanalysts make of this condition I do not know . |
| 19 | But in the grey eyes of this female I read only a kind of concealed hostility . |
| 20 | Even after the selection of this team I went home , switched on the television news , only to find that the weather forecast predicted blizzards in Scotland . |
| 21 | Whichever , it seems that Arsenio is n't quite the sort of cultural diplomat I had optimistically pictured . |
| 22 | Of personal knowledge I have not much … |
| 23 | I hike along the shore with his sister , Megan , to examine what Pete describes as ‘ the most impressive runnable stretch of white water I 've ever seen ’ . |
| 24 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 25 | I know for the readers of Outdoor Action I do n't have to quote the Country Code , but for all our sakes let's stick to it . |
| 26 | I think I did see him die , with the look of utter peace I had only read of previously . |
| 27 | As to being in a state of great anxiety I do not deny it … |
| 28 | Yes , but you see that was all right because it was going to the Louis Pasteur Institute for Aids , it 's the only piece of important jewellery I 've ever bought myself . |
| 29 | I was anxious to alert people to the to the specific issue of strategic planning I did n't want to step outside of that . |
| 30 | I need some le er the , I wanted a carton of live yoghurt I do n't think the live yoghurt I used was any good because , for a start it was fruit flavoured , no it was n't , it was natural , but it said mild flavoured |