Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I spotted the old Humber while I was on duty and at first thought it would take me a couple of years to restore — but eventually it took seven ! |
| 2 | It will be ten years this June since I left BTI , at that time under the lovely principalship of Geoffrey Grogan . |
| 3 | I mean you may not have that much to compare it with , but certainly in my experience , is that January if I took people round the in January , erm , you sort of made excuses for it . |
| 4 | Erm I would like to formally second Mr because I followed a situation where the previous minister had baptised anyone and when I arrived I discussed with the session what our policy on baptism was and we concurred that we should follow the nineteen sixty three law but apply it under grace and with the spirit of God in mind and we had some very difficult situations when people said to me no I have no time for God in my life but I want you to baptise my baby . |
| 5 | Having had three reviews printed and received a veiled death threat from The Godfathers , I was already something of a celebrity in my native Wigan when I took the train to Commonwealth House . |
| 6 | I 'll be getting a reputation as a Black Maria if I 'm not careful . ’ |
| 7 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 8 | I kept thinking cos I was , was n't very well Saturday so I was lying on the settee thinking well I hope it ai n't me . |
| 9 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 10 | Too late Mark before I can . |
| 11 | In consulted the ladies again , and was told that these nightmares were caused by an incarnation in Ancient Greece where I had been sacrificed to the Sun God . |
| 12 | In the little white house in the almond and lemon country of South-Eastern Spain where I stayed last summer every midday meal started with the tomato and onion salad . |
| 13 | I 'm particularly concerned about the lack of the service on 27th June as I received a letter from Mr J L Gould of Ribble dated 3 June saying the errors in their scheduling had been rectified . |
| 14 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 15 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 16 | For example , if I had all the money in the world I could quite easily buy a hundred Ferraris if I wished . |
| 17 | ‘ The cheek of him , calling me young Anne when I 'm a wife and mother ! ’ |
| 18 | Still , perhaps I shall get a chance to at least pass my regards to young Mikhail while I am here . ’ |
| 19 | Well he gets paid next Friday so I 'll |
| 20 | ‘ I booked one last Saturday after I went to Hélène 's boutique . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm gon na need it this week and or next Saturday cos I 'm in in the morning , and I 'm getting I think I 'm gon na get boots as well . |
| 22 | It was the next January before I felt well again . |
| 23 | I took a basket of eggs into church last Sunday because I was so afraid I should forget to give them to old Mrs Baldwin on my way home . |
| 24 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |