Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car slid away from the kerb , followed by a small blue roadster , and I thought with some regret that I was probably watching Mrs. Barbara Porter driving out of my life . |
| 2 | ‘ Even I gave a half cheer when I heard that , ’ declares Pamela . |
| 3 | Then I saw the top tier of the cake and that has got to be the er piece , piece de resistance I think as the French say and I know that some very exciting ideas are coming out of the South East region . |
| 4 | Peering into the tank using a strong eye-glass I could only see a few fry and I mean a few . |
| 5 | So it was with some hope that I travelled to Scotland . |
| 6 | The food , and the mud on our wellingtons , and sometimes the faint tang of cordite coming up from the cellar all give me a good , tight , thrilling feel when I think about them . |
| 7 | You all insist that I know nothing but nobody else can do this . |
| 8 | It makes me all upset when I think about them . |
| 9 | It was all smell and I do n't know what it was ! |
| 10 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 11 | If I was a cynical person , which you all know that I am not , I would have said it was the Government 's intention to help lawyers make more money out of the Act . |
| 12 | They made a four all draw and I think they 've still got the video now on television of the match . |
| 13 | Of course , I made the latter up though I am still very proud of them ; a mailed fist , middle finger extended , and underneath the Latin motto ‘ In dubito curre ’ which , roughly translated , means ‘ In doubt , run ’ . |
| 14 | Mr Garcia , who accepted that ‘ excesses ’ had been committed , said of those reponsible : ‘ Either they all go or I go . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They all think that I am , ’ Mrs Constantine assured her wryly . |
| 16 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 17 | I know they all have but I mean I 'd rather have the ordinary names and then |
| 18 | Armstrong started up first go and I dialled around the local radio stations to try and catch if anyone was doing anything stupid on the roads . |
| 19 | Is there any hope that I could have the operation reversed ? |
| 20 | Is it any wonder that I choose to shop abroad . |
| 21 | Is it any wonder that I now plead with my right hon. and learned Friend to intervene on behalf of pupils and parents who wish to move their children over the border to Staffordshire because they are fed up with their own high-spending council and they want that council to take responsibility ? |
| 22 | And I can assure you that I did n't shine the torch on her longer than I needed to satisfy myself that she was beyond any help that I could give . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I wonder , ’ said Charsky , ‘ if you both feel as I do . ’ |