Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 2 | So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution . |
| 3 | I asked for my ham-and-tomato sandwich . |
| 4 | I would like to emphasise the point I made in my previous letter , that a recent BMA survey showed that 85 percent of doctors believe a ban on animal research would damage medical progress . |
| 5 | I repeat to my hon. Friend that , while there is cause for concern about the large spectacular frauds that have been uncovered , the Government have done more than any other with the Financial Services Act 1986 , the Banking Act 1987 , the Building Societies Act 1986 and amendments to the Companies Acts to regulate the City of London . |
| 6 | We 've got a lot of different opinions there , I mean from my personal experience when I was a customer sales manager my , my students or particularly some of them , well I would say the brightest kind of people in the branch , and they had the most attention , and it 's very easy I think to write them off . |
| 7 | Berenice has high blood-pressure ; she has to remain in hospital because of stress , or she will miscarry , and if that happens I fear for her mental health . ’ |
| 8 | I hold the rod parallel to the ground over my right shoulder , with the butt pointing at the target , glance at my rod-tip and tackle to make sure everything is free , then look at the target and keep my eye on it while I push with my right hand and pull with my left . |
| 9 | Though I agreed with their political views , I could not condone the way they acted and was glad to see them go at last . |
| 10 | After that , I sit on our front step and wait for the ambulance . |
| 11 | I peer through its little ambush at the scene below . |
| 12 | How can I explain in my poor English ? |
| 13 | How can I explain in my poor English ? |
| 14 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 15 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 16 | Something I 'd never to do , so I had to settle down and get School Certificate , which I got with my matric exemption , and people from did . |
| 17 | It went pretty well actually , the feedback I got from my immediate boss fairly pleased with it was pleased with it |
| 18 | ‘ I concede to your superior knowledge , Sister , ’ he murmured . |
| 19 | It 's erm — and another thing , I was delighted when John Dreyfus in the Type ninety lecture used these terms of Charles Peignot called typo lecture and typo visuel , which I mis-spelt on my closing slide ! |
| 20 | I long for his unwashed eyes . |
| 21 | And I long for your gentle touch , |
| 22 | Below the 102/2 comes the 101/2 ( £495 , reviewed by John Borwick last September ) and above the 104/2 lie the 105/3 ( £1,995 ) and 107/2 ( £3,195 ) which I reviewed in its original form in August 1988 . |
| 23 | When I arrived , I found to my great irritation that I 'd forgotten the film . |
| 24 | Some seventeen years ago I moved with my young family to West Ham from Ealing . |
| 25 | I moved from my little flat to join a transsexual community , people the other way round to me — men to psuedo-wimmin — but who understood me . |
| 26 | I say to my honourable friend as far as the P I A 's concerned he will have an early opportunity er to consider er the prospectus on that which is indeed being published er and I take very seriously the point he makes about adequate monitoring procedures and the need for an audit trail . |
| 27 | I say to my rock-musician friends : ‘ What could be heavier than 15 people all together , blasting out on those bamboo tubes ? |
| 28 | I say to my hon. Friend — |
| 29 | She does everything right ; when I was young I helped with my small sister — she was born when I was fourteen — and I helped with the housework of course . |
| 30 | I regret that I disagree with my hon. Friend , but I assure her that the levels have returned to those of 1987 . |