Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] i " in BNC.
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1 | Some teachers may be adept at introducing their pupils to grammatical concepts , or matters of punctuation , by means of jokes and puns which depend on ambiguities , to be cleared up only by distinguishing nouns from adjectives , or different spellings of the same word ( ‘ Giant Waves Down funnel ’ ; ‘ Gladly the Cross I 'd bear ’ = ‘ Gladly , the cross-eyed bear ’ , and other well-known punning equivalents , beloved of all children ) . |
2 | Naturally I talked over every aspect of it with Elizabeth and the family ; and in the end I concluded that if- and only if-convincing evidence was brought to me that a substantial majority in both Houses wished me to take on the job I would do so . |
3 | For me to be autonomous , it is not sufficient that you leave me alone ; rather the way I am treated by you has a bearing on my autonomy , and reciprocally for you . |
4 | So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice . |
5 | May be I 'm being a little unkind but that was rather the impression I got . |
6 | I am pleased to have ladies since they are more comfortable to be with and understand better the difficulties I labour under with a young baby and poor help and no husband constantly at my elbow . |
7 | And these you should remember are basically the terms I gave on the previous page . |
8 | As I dodged down the yard I noticed the broken bottle lying in the drain . |
9 | My mother went down the yard and seen the boss and asked him if he could get and the fact that my mother went down the yard I suppose er he must have felt sorry for us . |
10 | ‘ He turned down the part I offered him then — which was the best thing he ever did . |
11 | I also jot down the questions I did answer and ask myself if my answers were open or closed . |
12 | And if I had to choose a companion to be with me down the years I would take you as a pattern . ’ |
13 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
14 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
15 | When I put down the receiver I heard Geoff Tulloch 's voice out in the main office , impressing the young women with his irrepressible personality . |
16 | Terry rightly told me I went down the wrong I was looking for names rather than the dots . |
17 | Put another way , perhaps the things I do with my time are really what I want to do . |
18 | As I approached it I reached out my talons to land and perhaps the prey I was holding obscured the view for I should have seen sooner what had been put on top of the post by Men . |
19 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
20 | The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one . |
21 | Yes er I think perhaps the point I 'd like to emphasis is that the increase er in runway length is really quite a modest one er and therefore it has n't had an enormous impact . |
22 | I mean perhaps the point I have n't brought out , which was another enormous effect from the mixed ability teaching , or the mixed ability grouping , was the improvement in the pupils erm behaviour . |
23 | Perhaps the point I have n't brought out , which was another enormous effect from the mixed ability teaching , or the mixed ability grouping , was the improvement in the pupils ' behaviour . |
24 | Perhaps the distinction I want to draw can be seen more clearly if we start with an example involving size rather than colour . |
25 | ‘ Perhaps the impression I 'm giving is n't quite fair to Sara ; after all , she did n't ask for the job . ’ |
26 | ‘ Obviously the thing I have is the looks , which will help , but hopefully people will like the music too ’ |
27 | ‘ Obviously the thing I have is the looks , which will help , but hopefully people will like the music too . ’ |
28 | I do all the things I did n't do the first time . |
29 | Slater sighed wistfully , " Do all the things I would n't dream of doing , but do n't forget what your Uncle Richard told you . " |
30 | I all the forms I 've before are version numbered and dated . |