Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In Germany there is more emphasis on technical skills and I learned bricklaying while completing my education . |
| 2 | Of her time at Somerville Sue comments : ‘ I 'm afraid I got far more from my extra-curricular activities than I did from my studies ’ . |
| 3 | It is in the darkest , unprogressive times that I return to base and say ‘ baptizatus sum ’ ‘ I am a baptized person ’ — and that is sheer gift and grace . |
| 4 | This motion condemns rise in unemployment caused by the incompetent handling of the Tory government 's economic policies and I ask for support of the T U C campaigns for the unemployed , but I would beg really that when we do campaign , the T U C gives us more than two days to notify us of rallies and meetings . |
| 5 | ‘ She is also setting an example in these hard economic times and I think we should respect the Princess for this . ’ |
| 6 | It 's one of the CIA 's most closely guarded secrets and I intend to keep it that way . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got broad shoulders and I 've been through it as a player . |
| 8 | I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it . |
| 9 | They snapped like burned-through twigs and I threw them away . |
| 10 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 11 | ’ Just barely , ’ I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to my feet . |
| 12 | The kind of norms we are concerned with here are sometimes called community norms in order to distinguish them from the superordinate norms that I have mentioned , and I shall suggest below that a major difference between superordinate and community norms is that , whereas ‘ standard ’ norms are uniform , community norms are sometimes more aptly described as variable norms . |
| 13 | Of course , you 'll then ask about foreigners playing in English clubs and I 've no objections to that provided that not too many are brought in . |
| 14 | I may also add , in passing , that Miller has brown eyes whereas I have blue , black hair where mine is red , good eyesight whereas I am a little shortsighted . |
| 15 | They are both disreputable practitioners of empty trades and I wanted to — ’ |
| 16 | To illustrate the point , and to suggest some possible choices , I shall pack a fictional bag for three very different trips that I have taken recently — a six-week winter trip to Nepal , including a trek to Everest Base Camp , a week 's backpacking in North Wales and a camping and birdwatching trip to New England during the Fall . |
| 17 | I do n't even get on with my brother , we 've always been at different schools and I 've hardly spoken to him since he went to university . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 19 | Like Paula , I thought they were old ledgers and I did n't take much notice . |
| 20 | that they had n't but schools , particularly high schools and I said well we were very interested as part of the the programme here because it was community erm not geography , because she 's a geographer and she says the geography side of it 's fine she will use information that the children collect for her benefit , but she 'll also use us you know , to define the information but she |
| 21 | The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too . |
| 22 | I 've been employing a similar battle plan in slightly different circumstances and I 've scored at least one tactical victory . |
| 23 | Brian May is one of my favourite guitarists and I found that I could really relate to his window idea . |
| 24 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 25 | You do see this much more in foreign companies and I think if we in Britain could match the physical and the vocal more we would really be on top with our training resources . |
| 26 | Testing is the same sort of thing but this brings out the different functions that I talked about either summations or or products . |
| 27 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 28 | Here I am playing with some of the world 's top golfers and I realise this is the stage I should be performing on . ’ |
| 29 | A final demand from the Gas Board and a threat from Glasgow Public Libraries if I did n't return The Maltese Falcon and pay my seventeen-and-six fine they 'd permanently withdraw my ticket and cut my left hand off . |
| 30 | Some players hate anything but perfectly even-grained tops on acoustic guitars but I think this one only adds character . |