Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also quicker than I thought a diesel would be . ’ |
| 2 | I generally fish with a short hair for barbel , about ½ inch , but soon lengthen this if I get a few bites and do n't hit them . |
| 3 | I 'm going to be lively until I get a cat , if I do n't get a cat I 'm going to be lively for ever . |
| 4 | I 'd be bloody embarrassed if I had a husband that looked like that I 'd throw him away . |
| 5 | Oh no we 've got some really hard numbers french if I had a dictionary I could look it up but I have n't . |
| 6 | At first it was very good , I could n't do anything wrong because I had a baby . |
| 7 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 8 | And I was fourteen years old before I touched a piano for the first time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You could n't have mentioned this when I took a shot at him in the alleyway . ’ |
| 10 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 11 | This time , it was a bit more serious because I got a registered letter . |
| 12 | It is cool outside as I throw a log on the gently breathing embers . |
| 13 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 14 | One day I disturbed three separate males and was feeling thoroughly frustrated and incompetent when I saw a magnificent bull , silhouetted on a ridge against the setting sun , a graceful , powerful body with a great sweep of spiralling horns . |
| 15 | I always feel slightly alarmed when I hear a pregnant woman describing the future with relentless certainty : work until the eighth month , three months off , a holiday abroad , back to work , and so on . |
| 16 | The the guy ca n't get that cos I had a few shillings more after working two years . |
| 17 | well I can do with that cos I got a Three Eight Six , it should be perfectly fast . |
| 18 | " I 'm sorry if I seem a trifle flushed . |
| 19 | In the short term I think that 's an area I can get over that until I get a car which |
| 20 | A lot of them would be much happier if I wore a headscarf and jangled gypsy bangles . ’ |
| 21 | Do the books feel very hard because I have a tendency to pull my head back onto them with excessive and habitual tension in the muscles of the neck ? |
| 22 | ‘ I was really lucky because I had a really great mother who would expose me to a lot of really great things . |
| 23 | But people complain sometimes about the flushes , but I was glad when I had a flush because I felt better after having flushes ! |
| 24 | There was a moment later when I found a willow leaf stuck to her still-moist haunches . |
| 25 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 26 | Erm I think it might be helpful if I make a comment on this business of er tenders from the other side of the fence actually , Bob . |
| 27 | I 'm now just got their comments now , and it may be helpful if I enclose a copy to er whoever may may wish to have a copy to be looked at over the weekend . |
| 28 | the clue , I I 'm sure if I made a mistakes like that , it 's because it 's , you know , maybe angry and I made the wrong approach . |
| 29 | But when I went to university , I did n't bother at all until I encountered a girl who I got the impression would be immensely impressed if I could speak . |
| 30 | It may be useful if I define a warren . |