Example sentences of "[art] [adj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platinum was one of the few I came across that allowed you to have any more . ’ |
| 2 | In Standard English they range from uh-huh and yes to the explicit I agree with you . |
| 3 | If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water . |
| 4 | He was quite charming , the little I saw of him . ’ |
| 5 | From the little I saw of the game Ipswich seemed quite content with standing inside their own penalty box and only closing down people when they got within 2 yards of it . |
| 6 | From the little I knew of you it seemed out of character . |
| 7 | Well to me when I come home of the Crimean I look at these massive tips you know in Blaenau on your left and the old on the right and that , erm if the old man that first rucked his pick and shovel or whatever trussel and or whatever they started would have known what he was starting then , it was like the Klondike of Wales . |
| 8 | ‘ At the beginning of the '60s I lived in Ealing , and used to go to the Ealing Jazz Club when guys like Cyril Davis were playing . |
| 9 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 10 | The more I put into it the worse it goes . |
| 11 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 12 | I mean our , the more I think about it I think the main , we might even go to Germany to see my sister , so it might be next year , but I ca n't get Tony to talk at the moment , I do n't know erm , |
| 13 | That is the more I think about it though . |
| 14 | I mean , I take the point that there might be an opposition to some of their national officials , well it 's quite a good idea really the more I think about it erm , but I just really do n't see what there 's anything to be frightened about . |
| 15 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 16 | The first I knew of this was when , seeing his bollard shape through the wrought-iron railings , my old humiliator Holland turned to me and said , placing predictably his malicious emphasis , ‘ There 's your ‘ guardian ’ , Wharton , come to take you off for some wanky-wanky , as usual . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The first I knew of the positive test came in a letter from the Jockey Club . |
| 18 | The first I knew about it was Malcolm going on about rubber . |
| 19 | The first I knew about the plan to publish it in the newspapers tomorrow was a fax at midday today . ’ |
| 20 | ’ That was the first I knew about it , ’ he recalls . |
| 21 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 22 | That was the first I knew about it . |
| 23 | The first I heard of my part in Talking Heads was when the script was pushed through my letterbox . |
| 24 | Their result is the first I look for every week , and I get home as often as I can . |
| 25 | This was the first poem Dana showed me , and one of the first I reworked with him . |
| 26 | The first I see during my annual sojourn in Florida — the beautiful pendant flowers of Hibiscus schizopetalus with ferny swept-back petals hanging from a 6ft ( 1.8m ) bush . |
| 27 | ‘ The first I learned of either the debt or the judgement was when I got a letter about it this week . |
| 28 | The former I conceive as the application of social science methodology to historical research . |
| 29 | But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes , |
| 30 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |