Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Strange advert I saw in the week it it was erm |
| 3 | And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman . |
| 4 | Clare Lawrence ( Mrs Hatcher ) writes , ‘ Since qualifying as a solicitor specialising in corporate and commercial work in private practice I worked in industry 1986- 8 as a Legal Director of Bricom plc . |
| 5 | You 're still the slim chick I knew in nineteen seventy four . |
| 6 | It was already late afternoon , but it was the only German greeting I knew besides ‘ Heil Hitler ’ . |
| 7 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 8 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 9 | At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me . |
| 10 | There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane |
| 11 | The very first proper rehearsal I had with them was in the Covent Garden Community Centre . |
| 12 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
| 13 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 14 | He made birdie to open up a four-shot lead I looked at him and winked . |
| 15 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 16 | In a remnant of old forest I came on some grazing deer and quickly dropped to ground and crawled in under a small bank where I was able to stay out of sight , out of smell , and enjoy a very good look at the herd . |
| 17 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 18 | Every skill I ever learned in the Art of Coarse Acting I learned in that sweaty cloakroom before Double Hockey . |
| 19 | Well , Mrs. Jewkes , if it were not for the thought of that cursed parson I believe in my heart , so great is my weakness , that I could yet forgive this intriguing little slut and take her to my bosom . |
| 20 | In response to some implied criticism I made of his treatment of the sub-editor , Porua regarded me in a sneering silence and then said , ‘ Why should I have regard for my fellows ? |
| 21 | To obtain a more glossy finish I mixed in some Gloss Medium whilst painting . |
| 22 | Every bleedin' night I dreams about that . |
| 23 | The only old woman I helped in Ipswich was Bridget the Ancient . |
| 24 | Settling myself on the wooden bench I peered through the open slit . |
| 25 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 26 | And here 's an interesting thing I learned from the Independent on Sunday last weekend : as its correspondent David Lister put it , ‘ An international competition to find the best of the worst new verse has been wound up because poets on both sides of the Atlantic can no longer distinguish between ‘ good bad ’ poetry and ‘ bad good ’ poetry . ’ |
| 27 | An unemployed couple I met in Coventry can not visit their parents on the other side of town — at £2.88 the cost is prohibitive . |
| 28 | When I got out of high school I wanted to be a caddie , so I got some bags at my local club . |
| 29 | The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’ |
| 30 | But whether man 's inward mind patterning , which provides him with the capacity for verbal language , is underlain by a subtle and universal language of meaning to which we all relate when using verbal language , is an interesting possibility I discussed in The Web of Life . |