Example sentences of "i [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry . |
| 2 | First to tell me wins a signed photo of Jon Newsome : - ) |
| 3 | ONCE again baseless charges of lewdness and indecency in this column make it impossible for me to report the following headline in the newsletter of Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries : ‘ What 's Five Inches Long — and Worth £200 ? ’ |
| 4 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 5 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 6 | do you see what I mean , right , sit and re-question close , right you can close them on ee do you want to include the extra window for two hundred pound , you follow me you 've hit them with a price you want to close them , right and you sit and do the paperwork and you just say to them do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds because you 've already said to them you , you give an extra , do you follow me ? |
| 7 | right with an extra window , whatever about the money , like Mrs what 's her name , so you 've nearly closed her on the conservatory you do all the paper , your order close form on the conservatory and you say to her , right , cos you 're working your sums out , do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds ? |
| 8 | I tried to convince him there must be jugs at the grade and he fell for it , allowing me to breathe a great sigh of relief . |
| 9 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 10 | Thank you very much for inviting me to attend the forthcoming AGM in Aberystwyth . |
| 11 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 12 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 13 | They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see . |
| 14 | Let me enjoy the sweet Suspence of Woe , |
| 15 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 16 | This inspired me to write the dreadful Verena for her . |
| 17 | The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand . |
| 18 | It is always a lie and never the truth , ’ Questionable though that judgement may be on the aphorism in general , it does seem to me to catch the half-formed nature of this observation — or perhaps , better speaking , its lack of a frame . |
| 19 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
| 20 | After the election , I became a frequent visitor to Downing Street . |
| 21 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 22 | I I became a great friend of hers actually , er she looked out of place on the bench . |
| 23 | ‘ When Boon began , I felt guilty about earning a lot of money so I became a soft touch for begging letters and charity appeals , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I became a high-ranking officer under the chief archangel , Vauban . ’ |
| 25 | When I became a permanent presenter in Bristol , the main newsreader was Ken Rees , more recently to establish himself as a top foreign correspondent for ITN . |
| 26 | This was one reason why I became a postnatal supporter for a year and why I trained as a breastfeeding counsellor . |
| 27 | ‘ I became an involuntary expert on Christabel LaMotte . |
| 28 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 29 | When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set . |
| 30 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |