Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is one particular marathon runner I have always liked and that 's Grete Waitz . |
| 2 | He 's the best striker I 've ever worked with , I just wished he could do that sort of thing when he played for England . |
| 3 | ‘ Saunders is the best natural striker I 've ever worked with . |
| 4 | It was his goal that knocked United out of the Coca-Cola Cup , and Atkinson added : ‘ Saunders is the best natural striker I 've ever worked with . |
| 5 | Limpar , on his way back from international duty with Sweden in Oslo , told me : ‘ Shearer is top class , a striker I rate very highly . |
| 6 | He scored his first goal of the season on Wednesday — and Ndlovu , who is rated by Coventry manager Bobby Gould as ‘ the most exciting young striker I have ever worked with ’ , believes that 's the first of many . |
| 7 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 8 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 9 | I do n't like the way I look , most of the time , for all the reasons I 've just given . |
| 10 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 11 | Because I gave Kevin massage — I mean , that 's one of the reasons I go there . ’ |
| 12 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 13 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 14 | It was pointed out in argument that , pursuant to regulation 7 of the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , tax which was due but not paid on or before the due date could have been the subject of an assessment on Woolwich under paragraph 4(2) or ( 3 ) of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1972 ; but for the reasons I have already given any such assessment would , in my opinion , have been a nullity in the circumstances of the present case . |
| 15 | Nor do I think it necessary to consider for the purposes of the present case to what extent the common law may provide the public authority with a defence to a claim for the repayment of money so paid ; though for the reasons I have already given , I do not consider that the principle of recovery should be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law . |
| 16 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 17 | For largely sentimental reasons I have usually voted Liberal . |
| 18 | Give me a line-up of blokes I 've never met before , and I 'll pick out the big hitter for you . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In approaching the wife 's defence I have regretfully come to the conclusion that the judge has overlooked two critical points of distinction between her case and that of the husband . |
| 20 | ‘ You have the most glorious hair I 've ever seen ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You have the most beautiful hair I have ever seen . ’ |
| 22 | McGinley rates the 11% growth in like-for-like sales ‘ a pretty good performance in the deepest recession I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I intend writing the story I came here to find . ’ |
| 24 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 25 | That was the story I had later from one of her flatmates . |
| 26 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 27 | In the story I have just told , I explain how self-image dominated my life for a time . |
| 28 | This story , told from a child 's point of view , from the limited perspective of a small Welsh town , far away from the fighting , brought the sadness of war closer than any story I have ever heard . |
| 29 | ‘ It is the only beautiful story I have ever heard , ’ said Cyril . |
| 30 | For my part it brought to light fascinating aspects of English language use about whose existence I had previously been quite unaware — or , perhaps better , about whose extent I had previously been quite unaware . |