Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since talking to Anita , my neighbour , about my weight loss and panic about putting it back on , I 've discovered what a low opinion I have of myself . |
| 2 | I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know . |
| 3 | Frank was a retired boffin I think from British Aerospace . |
| 4 | As I am a complete traditionalist I agreed to whatever form of costume was required . |
| 5 | At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me . |
| 6 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 7 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 8 | He made birdie to open up a four-shot lead I looked at him and winked . |
| 9 | But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb . |
| 10 | I made a bit of a speech and all that and er like a clever dick I went without me glasses . |
| 11 | At the end of the summer I shall complete two years as the caretaker of Report ( the fulfilment of a verbal obligation I made in August 1968 ) . |
| 12 | Having just finished a talk to a class of candidates for the ministry in a major denomination I was ‘ verbally assaulted ’ by the principal of the theological college concerned who picked up on a brief reference I made to Creation and Evolution and proceeded to state in the strongest possible terms that many true Christians believe in the theory of evolution and reject the biblical account of a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis . |
| 13 | As soon as the morning lessons were over and I had snatched a quick lunch I headed towards the village with my bag . |
| 14 | For a quick snack I turned to milk chocolate . |
| 15 | Sh and people here give her such a hard time I mean like the blokes are always say oh God , you know , that troll and everything but I |
| 16 | In an effort to develop a unique sound I stumbled across the very first pattern which I discovered I had never played before . |
| 17 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 18 | He 'd got away with it as a result of a little snooping I did on behalf of the concerned insurance company . |
| 19 | ‘ It says so in a little book I got from Our Lady 's Bookshop . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm in a deep hole I dug by being deep ’ ) . |
| 21 | After such a long day I thought of my wife and son with ‘ What have I done ? ’ running through my head as I dropped off to sleep . |
| 22 | For a long time I thought of him as ‘ my saviour ’ and even — though it was blasphemy — as my Saviour . |
| 23 | For a long time I walked with my eyes on the ground , watching my feet sinking interminably into the snow . |
| 24 | During the year , we have also reviewed the investment of our liquid funds , we have planned a ‘ Patrons ’ scheme , with an eye to support particularly from the smaller banks in the City ; we have introduced credit card payments , and resolved a major uncertainty I referred to last year over our Lombard Street offices . |
| 25 | Okay so we measure ei th the single channel current , up here it was er three picoamps , at a holding potential I guess of around plus twenty millivolts , we measure the slope of that line , and the slope of that line is the current divided by the voltage , and from Ohm 's Law that 's equal to conductance . |
| 26 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 27 | It seems as if it 's a legal question I hear from |
| 28 | Which , you know , Alan and I were saying we were a bit concerned about because he 's doing i such a good job I think on the lobbying , that North Yorkshire are not going to be flavour of the month in terms of ministers or senior civil servants |
| 29 | and it would be a good guide I think for people as to whether to have meters or not . |
| 30 | After a troubled night I went to Government House next morning and said to HE that I was convinced that this would be a disastrous step and that if it was decided to take it I must resign on the spot and announce in public my reasons for doing so . |