Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence .
2 I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it .
3 By half-term I weighed seven stone nine pounds , and I suspect it was only then that I became weight-conscious in the literal sense .
4 As I fiddled frantically with buttons that would n't depress and a monopod that would n't telescope downwards so I could actually see what professional fingers find in the dark , I became aware of the incredulous stare of a Japanese with an even bigger lens than mine .
5 It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir .
6 ‘ All right , your claim that I was superfluous is probably valid , so why was n't I made redundant in the usual way ?
7 After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations .
8 So I lay naked in the rinsed airlessness of the room , waiting for She-She 's return , and wishing pretty earnestly that I had taken my chances with Moby .
9 Well I 've never got particularly involved with this school , I got involved with the other schools
10 But she turned to let me undo it and I got impatient with the damn thing .
11 I grow bored with the sheer size of the glass and have to force myself to continue , he wrote .
12 I grow tired of the reasonable approach , ’ Legion said .
13 Footsteps are heard ascending the stairs to platform I passing clean through the locked barrier gates and proceeding along the platform .
14 I think I came unstuck at the last fence
15 During my last visit , on a warm spring day , I climbed high into the remote vastness of Foinaven and Arkle , to a tiny blue speck of water , probably unfished for decades .
16 No sooner have I got excited about the cool sensation in my throat than the can is empty .
17 If Punch dies , how do I keep sane for the next 40 years ! !
18 I get sick of the same old routine day after day . ’
19 I suppose marvellous to the wrong things !
20 I feel sorry for the poor person who has to translate it .
21 I feel sorry for the poor man !
22 I feel sorry for the little girl and I suggest to the writer that she consoles her daughter by telling her that the vile custom of killing wild animals for fun is on the way out , that almost all british people feel as she does , and are determined to end such cruelty , and that she can help to bring about its end by supporting the League Against Cruel Sports and talking about the work they do to her schoolfriends .
23 I feel sorry for the French Commando being carried by the two German soldiers .
24 I felt relieved in the same huge way as when you 've been desperate to pee and you finally get to a loo …
25 ‘ I have had trouble in sleeping the past three nights but I felt good until the 20 miles mark .
26 Travelling by train from Gatwick Airport to London , I felt sorry for the many foreign visitors struggling to follow the announcements made over the loudspeaker .
27 He stuck hi and he get that wound up towards the end I felt sorry for the poor little soul !
28 I felt nervous in the second half , because I knew one mistake could cost the game .
29 ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says .
30 I had quite forgotten that Mrs Bailes occasionally tethered him in the kennel at the entrance to discourage unwelcome visitors , and as I half lay against the wall , the blood thundering in my ears , I looked dully at the long coil of chain on the cobbles .
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