Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the reasons I think the Japanese are so good at putting in quality systems is that , in some ways , it 's painful attention to detail , a series of little things which really improve performance . |
| 2 | Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’ |
| 3 | As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness . |
| 4 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 5 | A year later when I had Katie and I was married , I did n't want " to go to hospital in case I got the same treatment , but they were totally different . |
| 6 | Well in that case I think the cheapest cheapest alternative yeah is erm , if you 're gon na do er something like that , would be a barn dance in the hall down Edinburgh Way er which you get quite cheap |
| 7 | On Wednesday 5 March 1980 , I explored the practicalities of this course at a meeting in the department and on 10 March I minuted the Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 9 | Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad 's boots on the cobbles . |
| 10 | Yet when I step off the bus at the Coronet cinema I get the same lurch as when I first left home . |
| 11 | Of course I know the vast majority — especially the New People — do n't care a damn about any of the arts . |
| 12 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 13 | Er and of course I seen the present managers are , are th the one you know only just lives down the road here he 's recently retired . |
| 14 | Of course I share the hon. Gentleman 's sympathy in the case of Mr. Newell . |
| 15 | and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past |
| 16 | Of course I give the hon. Gentleman that assurance . |
| 17 | Of course I give the hon. Gentleman the pledge that we shall take up any of those cases , should he send the details to me . |
| 18 | In the afternoon I watch the English football . |
| 19 | With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board . |
| 20 | Whenever I picked up my guitar I played the same basic scalar and arpeggiated patterns . |
| 21 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 22 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 23 | On this field I found the best combination was to set the Silver Sabre at minimum discrimination and maximum sensitivity . |
| 24 | Er Mr Chairman I trust the local member Mr be my |
| 25 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 26 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 27 | With fresh eyes I surveyed the familiar landscape . |
| 28 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 29 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 30 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |