Example sentences of "i [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 2 | She 's been giving me strange looks ever since I got here — doubtless because it 's not exactly commonplace for the star of the show to make bookings for the lowly make-up artist . ’ |
| 3 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 4 | ‘ Many parents bring me rebellious teenagers with the plea , ‘ Please change her , doctor ! ' ’ |
| 5 | This gives me strong blacks . |
| 6 | This gives me strong blacks . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not me that changes , ’ he said mildly . |
| 8 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 9 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
| 10 | Oh dear me sorry thanks Mike phew . |
| 11 | ‘ E calls me Private Carrots . |
| 12 | Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others . |
| 13 | He wanted to be able to give me fifty pounds , and he was suffering from a deep sense of inadequacy because he could n't have given me five . |
| 14 | Sh she pays me fifty pounds , she rang me up she were away to a funeral |
| 15 | I have to pay tax on that lot mind , but I mean it 's something you know like it 's still costing me fifty pounds |
| 16 | It 'll take me fifty minutes |
| 17 | An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift . " |
| 18 | Nobody gives me fifty dollars . " |
| 19 | She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship . |
| 20 | Give me eight hours to get ready and you 're on . ’ |
| 21 | hold me love me Eight Days |
| 22 | Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on . |
| 23 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 24 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 25 | On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty-first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family . ’ |
| 26 | Then I said to them , " Its a pity you could n't find me foster parents " , and the social worker said , " What a brilliant idea ! " |
| 27 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 28 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 29 | Anyway that 's , that 's on , that 's only a three hour course that 's running for thirteen weeks , which will cost me forty pounds , but I 'll take |
| 30 | ‘ Me proper shoes ! |