Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 2 | The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen . |
| 3 | ‘ I like the inside lanes , and if I get the right lane I think I can go under 20 seconds . |
| 4 | I , I mean er yes as soon as , when you start making political change I think that 's revolution really , I mean you 're , you 're not |
| 5 | Well I suspect that initially his Silverstone decision was perhaps made prematurely , it was certainly a rather an emotional decision I think . |
| 6 | I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life . |
| 7 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 8 | Eleven bloody hours I 've driven today . |
| 9 | The working hypothesis I end with , however , is that the subjective experiences of work , engendered by the application of particular rational-scientific principles of work organization , can have the psychic consequence that the worker is asked to manage himself at less than a mature level . |
| 10 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 11 | at a very low level I think it 's a very potentially demoralising thing |
| 12 | Those were the choices , and if we dissect the Labour budget I think you 'll see that we were quite proper in deciding that for all its faults , and I mean this is not a budget that any of us in that chamber , you see , certainly no Liberal Democrat , wanted to even put forward at all . |
| 13 | As a former regional chairman I recognise the value and importance of open communication . |
| 14 | you know they sit there going what is a normal case , this is a normal case I 've never seen anything else before . |
| 15 | It 's only bloody luxury I 've got in life , smoking . |
| 16 | Le Rue the band are one of the tightest and most cohesive units I 've seen . |
| 17 | ‘ The first friendly words I 've heard all day . |
| 18 | Mrs Bakker sang , in chorus with her supporters , ‘ On Christ the solid rock I stand/ All other ground is sinking sand ’ . |
| 19 | After the verdict his wife sang , in chorus with her supporters in the courtroom : ‘ On Christ the solid rock I stand/ All other ground is sinking sand ’ . |
| 20 | All that bloody crap I 've had . |
| 21 | Well it probably rounded off to have a total VIF I mean , re-date the IFUT from there . |
| 22 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 23 | ‘ It was probably the most painful experience I have ever had , going back through this life , this long life , which has not been the tranquil , easy existence people assume it to be . ’ |
| 24 | In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him that is formless . |
| 25 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 26 | Tibetan monk I suppose that is , A , the vibrator , B , the french tickler or C , crutchless knickers |
| 27 | I suddenly remember a nifty trick I know , and turn my mirror- and her reflection in it — a ghoulish purple . |
| 28 | Weekly board I suppose , like you . |
| 29 | As I get her into a fresh pair of rubber knickers I feel something cold on my face . |
| 30 | No telling us where I do n't know this one come but being a foreign driver I mean he he could have from anywhere in the country and he could have been on the road a long time . |