Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 2 | Erm where I find I ca n't understand the regional accent I 'm going to give them back to the person who recorded them |
| 3 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 4 | oh where 's that digestive biscuit I was gon na eat |
| 5 | After fifteen minutes on the Metro to Nevski Prospect I was met by a teeming downpour , heavy enough to keep me holed up under cover until ten minutes before the performance was due to start , and with the hall some hundreds of yards away along a back-street . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought it was nice , the way she missed out this syllable in the middle , and that as an English student I was going to notice things like this . ’ |
| 7 | It 's enough funny man I 'm telling ya ! |
| 8 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 9 | Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains . |
| 10 | And that old man I 'm telling you the God 's truth , I watched him when I was coming school many a time , used to go to Anglesey with a rope in his pocket here . |
| 11 | In London it 's only Annabel 's or Tramp — the rest do n't happen for the certain crowd , the newspaper-worthy crowd I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 12 | Oh funny thing I was having a look at one of Carrie 's , she 's got the Radio Times which we do n't get , only at Christmas time . |
| 13 | No , it 's your so-called devotion I 'm doubting and , if you 're honest , I think you 'll agree with me that it would n't weather a long separation . ’ |
| 14 | It 's high time I was marrying . |
| 15 | What a bloody fool I was to trust him even in this . ’ |
| 16 | It feels to Alice that motherhood means overturning ‘ almost all the marital , housing , professional and personal progress I was expected to make in my 20s . |
| 17 | At this early hour I was taking a final look at the layout of the course . |
| 18 | On one of these outings , the nervous mare I was riding was already unsettled by strong winds . |
| 19 | From the rear window I am watched by a mother and her toddler child . |
| 20 | Once , in a crowded bar I was forced into conversation with two ladies who were so disappointed that I felt quite guilty . |
| 21 | At this crucial point I was thrown a lifeline by , of all people , the Opposition Spokesman on Social Services , Michael Meacher . |
| 22 | The principal moment I 'm left with is a shot of two smoky essences in bottles , the sound of dry autumn leaves rustling through a chill night wind , and the voices of Cecil Kellaway and Veronica Lake , father and daughter , conversing from their adjacent bottles . |
| 23 | But first they had to look for a camp site so Mr was the chief engineer I was employed by him , to have a look round and we discovered Lyness farm to be a suitable place . |
| 24 | The serious point I 'm making is that , too often , in schools , the kind of questions are focused on just what is least interesting , not the , people 's attitude to witches , or to their bodies , or their attitudes to women , to children , all these things which are now considered part of the historian 's province , but instead we get saddled with the Treaty of Uncia Scolesi and the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and this is worrying . |
| 25 | It is in perfect order and as I am due to take early retirement I am looking forward to spending many hours in its arms . |
| 26 | At the actual moment I was transfixed with horror by the antics of the small black car . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know what sort of a game you 're playing here but unless you tell me exactly why you 've had me drive all the way down to this God-forsaken place I 'm going straight back through that door ! ’ |
| 28 | I know , I think after Christmas I 'm gon na go and have a look for some dresses and you see when it was an ordinary colour I was gon na have ivory but now it 's this colour I think i 'll be better having having white , I do n't know . |
| 29 | Whilst my sisters wiped up , from an early age I was given the task of transporting the clean china and utensils from the lid of the copper ( there was no draining board ) to the kitchen table for one of the adults to put away . |
| 30 | ‘ So right from an early age I was told I was special . |