Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 2 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 3 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 4 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 5 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 6 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |
| 7 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 8 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 9 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 10 | Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism . |
| 11 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 12 | He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment . |
| 13 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 14 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 15 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 16 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 17 | In the light of the overall aim , set an immediate end result by answering the question ‘ What result do I want to achieve by the end of this interaction ? ’ |
| 18 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 19 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 20 | I mean looking at the game you just could n't believe United would only get a point out of it erm when you went in at half time only one nil up , you so dominated the game I do n't think Charlton had a chance did they ? |
| 21 | There 's erm And I mean looking after the parish hall as well , why should we bother with that ? |
| 22 | later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock . |
| 23 | ‘ I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction . |
| 24 | I mean look at the chain of events which is bullshit . |
| 25 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 26 | I mean look at the difference from that and Friday . |
| 27 | I mean look at the adjudicator at . |
| 28 | So that he ca n't see what 's going on , cos she thinks if he do n't see what 's going on he wo n't bark , but he cries but I mean she should n't have them there , she 's never here so she should n't have them , I mean look at the trouble Alan had to get Jessie , because they worked , but Emma goes home every lunch time to see to Jessie from the bank , but I mean the woman one of them would n't let her have a dog , one kennels , which is how it should be , but I mean this one breed those three herself so , yeah I mean if you breed dogs yourself and you have three in the house of the same breed , what the hell do you want an alsatian for , as well but the whole point is she do n't have them as enjoyment , she do n't have them as company |
| 29 | I mean starting from the way children go to school in the morning — they expect their parents to take them quite often , and to contribute to pollution . |
| 30 | I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’ |