Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That break had made me realise I was n't in control of my career . |
| 2 | The sight of that blood has made me feel a whole lot better . |
| 3 | And in the last year or so , several of the top galleries have approached me to see if I 'd consider a deal with one of their artists ; for example , Fischer Fine Art offered Gillian Ayers , and Nigel Greenway offered Jeffery Camp . |
| 4 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 5 | This work has had me taking this set off the shelf again and again . |
| 6 | Research over the past few years has led me to observe elsewhere ( Cartwright , 1984 ) that in education in general — and arts education is no different in this respect — assessment comes in all forms and guises , and that the type of assessment practised is dependent upon the reasons for its use . |
| 7 | Writing this book has encouraged me to reflect upon the changes which have occurred in primary education in England and Wales since the end of World War II . |
| 8 | Half the racing world had seen me pick up Nolan and knew I could defend myself . |
| 9 | The section who raised this order have asked me to draw your attention to two matters . |
| 10 | In the 5th edition we find the following footnote to 270 : ‘ In order to maintain a fixed and measured standard for developing the power of liquid medicines , multiplied experience and careful observation have led me to adopt two succussions for each phial , in preference to the greater number formerly employed ( by which the medicines were too highly potentized ) . |
| 11 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 12 | ‘ Some fuckwits have said I try too hard to steal the show and shock by saying things like ‘ masturbate ’ . |
| 13 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 14 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 15 | My previous experiences had made me wonder if white policemen did n't get a kick out of black policemen investigating black citizens . |
| 16 | Then , a long-standing commitment had seen me jet off abroad … to disaster . |
| 17 | It was n't as though either of these men had led me to expect anything , gave me anything to hope for , it 's just that I really liked them , particularly the one I encountered later on . |
| 18 | These musings have made me burst into verse : |
| 19 | It was an hour later that they came back and by then the Jewish family had let me know exactly what was happening in Germany , and my game had become rather more serious . |
| 20 | You do n't know how many girls have begged me to come to the Casablanca Club , and you are the only one I have asked . ’ |
| 21 | Now that the good weather has arrived I feel trapped in the shop , and I want more time to enjoy other interests such as cricket and walking . |
| 22 | Disclosing what 's happening to you can make you feel better and , as described earlier in this chapter , it can also raise your status : ‘ I feel quite tongue-tied in this company ’ or ‘ That comment 's made me go quite red ! ’ |
| 23 | Maybe one of Dad 's visiting directors has seen me hanging around — spotted my talent . |
| 24 | My contempt is aimed at other and real people , those who by their looks and whispers and complicated innuendoes have forced me to write what I had no desire to write . |
| 25 | No wonder the seventh morning with its seventh sun had left me craving for Transylvanian dissolution . |
| 26 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 27 | But in which he says that he 's talking about himself ‘ That so many good and learned men among the neighbouring nations who read my works may not be induced by this fellow 's calumnies to alter the favourable opinion they have formed of me , followed by the assertion that the people of England whom fate , or duty , or their own virtues have incited me to defend may be convinced from the purity and integrity of my life that my defence , if it do not redown to their honour , can never be considered as their disgrace . ’ |
| 28 | At the end of the day I still have strong reservations about the software , eighteen months ago it would have been fine but exposure to everything from 1–2–3 to Open Access has left me expecting rather more from an integrated package . |
| 29 | The criteria of relevance to the central themes of European history have led me to set aside some topics often included in textbooks of this kind . |
| 30 | Cool as you like , Paul bloody Lexington has asked me to sit in the wings for the entire run of this play and feed Micky Banks his lines ! ’ |