Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [det] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 2 | After all that trauma I think I deserve this do you ? |
| 3 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 4 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 5 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 6 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
| 7 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 8 | After all these years I 'm definitely |
| 9 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 10 | In defence of that same honesty I think he could be shrewd enough , and ruthless enough , too . |
| 11 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |
| 12 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 13 | In spite of all this food I remained as thin as a rake , and was as hungry as ever . |
| 14 | In the midst of all this tension I giggled . |
| 15 | Basically , that means maintaining quality work , but easing down to give my body time to recover and possibly even occasionally allowing myself the luxury of collapsing on the settee , falling asleep and dreaming of all those races I wish I could still win . |
| 16 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |
| 17 | Think of all the ten per cents of all those series I wo n't be getting . |
| 18 | ‘ When I think of all those months I lived in the Store , not even knowing about the Outside … . ’ |
| 19 | I 've seen two of all these houses I walked round at Bridlington , I thought all the gravel looked quite nice , you know , with the odd plant and and things through the gravel . |
| 20 | Past all those people I could see the unmistakable giraffe-like back of Vern . |
| 21 | I can walk out or , and get erm , you know tonnes of any any shop I can get pornography that tells me that , or tell any man who chooses to buy that magazine that 's it okay to take a women even if she says no . |
| 22 | I just leaked like mad each time I fed Conrad from the other side . |
| 23 | And , for the moment , all I want is a little peace and quiet although it 's not all that quiet , thanks to the gaps between the attic floorboards left by the cottage 's Victorian jerrybuilder : how Riva can snore on through all those goings-on I do not know . |
| 24 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 25 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
| 26 | During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape . |
| 27 | Sorry for all this blabbing I ca n't think of much of great interest to tell you . |
| 28 | For all these reasons I have come to the conclusion , and I hold , that section 39 does override the injunction . |
| 29 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 30 | For all those reasons I am satisfied that although the justices plainly were very concerned and believed that this was the right course to take , I do not think they were justified in refusing the local authority 's application for an interim care order . |