Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] [vb pp] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of this necessarily lengthy examination of the decided cases I have found nothing which causes me to depart from the view I expressed before embarking on that examination as to the appropriate procedure to be followed under section 7(3) and section 8(2) considered simply on the basis of the statutory language .
2 So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them .
3 March 3rd , pure gloom ; ‘ For days I have seen nothing but the most terrible things that can be painted from a human mind . ’
4 My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’
5 Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms
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