Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] i [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pierre Leveque had arranged for me to join a small party attending the season-opening hockey match that evening at the Molson Stadium , with the local Montreal Canadiens playing the New York Rangers , but I did not realize it was the mayoral party until we arrived . |
| 2 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 3 | ‘ So you have come to me to make a double betrayal of it . |
| 4 | He had therefore prevailed upon me to undertake a small portion of the Key Control Document Self Audit Procedures . |
| 5 | This sentence seemed to me to possess an utter and invulnerable completeness . |
| 6 | He watched me intently , eyes narrowed against the sun which struck into this side of the courtyard , waiting for me to give a reasonable answer , which was foolish of him . |
| 7 | No doubt the whole neighbourhood 's waiting for me to make an honest woman of you . " |
| 8 | It was old Mr. Stavanger who paid for me to have a good secretarial course , and when I 'd qualified he gave me a job in the shipping office . |
| 9 | These authorities seem to me to leave the developing law , if not at the crossroads , at least at the junction of two diverging roads . |
| 10 | I feel no qualms about taking sides against these contributions , nearly all of which seem to me to disregard the Criminal Law Revision Committee Report and to neglect to analyse the meaning in its context of the word ‘ appropriate . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The world has changed , ’ Lagerfeld says , turning to me to explain the unlikely combination of a Chanel jacket and cycling shorts . |
| 12 | I have told my childhood story because it seems to me to parallel the general evolution of a progressive , child-centred approach to learning . |
| 13 | I do not know ; she seems to me to have no human heart left in her . ’ |
| 14 | But it seems to me to have the twofold advantages of first specifying with precision what it is that the parties have agreed , thus avoiding the possibility of misunderstanding or mistake , and , secondly , it enables the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may tentatively determine to depart from the agreed package . |
| 15 | Barnes ’ impassivity on receiving this message seems to me to show a rooted unwillingness to believe ill of BCCI . ’ |
| 16 | It is always a lie and never the truth , ’ Questionable though that judgement may be on the aphorism in general , it does seem to me to catch the half-formed nature of this observation — or perhaps , better speaking , its lack of a frame . |
| 17 | I rather deplore the recent manifestation of Pop ; it does n't seem to me to have the intellectual force of the art of the Sixties . |
| 18 | As no doubt the teams are ready to take the field , it only remains for me to extend a warm welcome to the directors , players and boisterous supporters of Scrimley Arsenal and wish you all an enjoyable afternoon . |
| 19 | Then you might care for me to redraft the complete document in more concise form . |
| 20 | But I mean the B and B's alright and er they 've paid for me to have an ensuite room and a quite reasonable breakfast so |
| 21 | Ron and I take each year as it comes and we always plan for me to run a personal best every season . |