Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " 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 '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 . |
| 4 | Certainly , it brought about the beginnings of an emotional freedom I had not known , and a deeper commitment to radical politics . |
| 5 | As a complete beginner I did not know what to do . |
| 6 | With a strong crosswind I sighted over my mentor 's left shoulder during the approach , only moving my head from side to side in the final stages to get a symmetrical perspective for the flare . |
| 7 | you know they sit there going what is a normal case , this is a normal case I 've never seen anything else before . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I only had a tiny part in Coriolanus , ’ he said a few years later , ‘ but it was the most exciting experience I 've ever had in the theatre . ’ |
| 10 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 11 | In 200 acres of fresh plough I saw hardly any earthworms at all . |
| 12 | as if this were not enough , the last quarter saw some of the most exciting football I have ever witnessed and certainly vindicated the raising of admission prices by 68 per cent . |
| 13 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 14 | The most interesting wedding I have ever waitressed at was very unusual . |
| 15 | a little bit , but not a great deal those gears most of the time as well the ones that we cruise in top gear I do n't think that 's really for me |
| 16 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 17 | Cleo tore off towards a fold-up dining-room table on which a hairy brown cat I had n't noticed until now had begun to stir and stretch . |
| 18 | By the public sector I do not mean primarily the state ; I mean a system of popular control within which producers and users ( or consumers ) would , as appropriate , share in policy- and decision-making . |
| 19 | And I can't — I can't-for a length of brown satin I did n't even steal . |
| 20 | Whichever , it seems that Arsenio is n't quite the sort of cultural diplomat I had optimistically pictured . |
| 21 | ‘ At my wife 's generous insistence I have not deducted one penny for the week you have spent in bed under our roof , being nursed back to health by the kindness of your mistress 's heart . ’ |
| 22 | As it brought me an endless supply of free wallop I played along with this . |
| 23 | I mean , I 'm the most unsociable person I 've ever met . ’ |
| 24 | Some time ago … in a high attic I heard once again the laud or summons or complaint of bells … . |
| 25 | It was , he said , ‘ the most complex foreign policy I have ever beheld ’ ; and if the impossible quickly went embarrassingly wrong , nobody should have been surprised . |
| 26 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 27 | She is the least self-conscious creature I have ever met . |
| 28 | But the weekly half-hour I liked best was devoted to the old music hall songs of the ‘ gay nineties ’ , many of which I had heard my father sing . |
| 29 | Stephen is the most fearless man I 've ever seen in battle . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I was ushered into the presence of the most charming man I have ever met . |