Example sentences of "i [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |
| 32 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 33 | ‘ Oh , yer rotten liar , ’ breathed the young woman , a shabby black straw hat on her head , ‘ I never snaffled no gent 's wallet in all me born days . ’ |
| 34 | Not a drop of gin or brandy ever touched me lips in all me born days . |
| 35 | ‘ Oh , you rotten beast , I 've never 'ad fleas in all me born days . ’ |
| 36 | and that 's , what I wan na do next , take them , to take me old curtains down and gon na re-make them for Lee 's bedroom . |
| 37 | ‘ If it were n't for me old bones and the fact that I might be overlooked when the bidding starts , I would n't want you within a mile of that sale room . |
| 38 | This , however , caused me untold problems , as I then had to ‘ answer ’ to the officer and see a tutor at the nursing school to explain the reason for such criticism . |
| 39 | Monty Lee and Dick Cleaver both gave me generous references . |
| 40 | ‘ Give me 700 words — make that 750 . |
| 41 | Dr Cassidy put forward fairly Burmin 's assertions that gold mining on Croagh Patrick would in no way interfere with the pilgrimage : ‘ I say in all fairness that should planning permission for mining ever be granted Burmin have given me repeated assurances that there will be no interference with the Pilgrim Path , there would be no interference with Patrick 's Peak or that particular part of the mountain range . ’ |
| 42 | She did not ask me foolish questions such as — ‘ How do you propose to go about it ? ’ but instead said with easy grace , reaching into a capacious velvet bag , handing me a card : |
| 43 | But if you 're giving me different inputs , different outputs for for one input , then that 's not a function . |
| 44 | on your interview she said I want you tell us because at the end of the , your interview she said , it 'll help us to do the others , so they told us , giving me different situations , she 's took a patient out to a cafe and the patient pinched a cake and eaten it , what would you do ? |
| 45 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |
| 46 | It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’ |
| 47 | I walked like some sleepwalker as he showed me empty rooms and a steep , stone-vaulted cellar . |
| 48 | Then the young assistant started giving me funny looks , as if there was something up and I should know there was something up . |
| 49 | ‘ No wonder they were giving me funny looks ! ’ |
| 50 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 51 | My secretary , Judy Fella , had used her not inconsiderable charm to persuade British Airways to give herself and me free seats on a Concorde as a publicity venture . |
| 52 | Well , you know , apart from anything else they always they were prepared to give me free tickets for the would never do that . |
| 53 | He handed me some leaflets and magazines about the French Army , one of which was Képi Blanc , the monthly journal of the Foreign Legion . |
| 54 | So I says , Paul , I says , get me some spotlights . |
| 55 | Last time we spoke you told me some lies . ’ |
| 56 | Now can you get some me some matches and tape something like that ? |
| 57 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 58 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 59 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 60 | When I was ill she gave me some herbs made into a medicine and I got better quite quickly . |