Example sentences of "i [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Let me make a very quick phone call and come back to you . ’ |
2 | I became a very good eyeballer , and I could read any line on any green . |
3 | I became a gloomily devoted mother . |
4 | That I became a more understanding teacher was very much due to Basil and the tradition which he had established . |
5 | ’ Could I make a very special request ? ’ asks Kiefer Sutherland in a fragile , full-of-flu drawl . |
6 | Bob , is a local person , in fact he lives in the village of Girton here , and to , to , to my knowledge takes a keen interest in local news and in local local affairs , since he 's been editor of the Evening News I , I , I perceive a more lively style creeping into the paper . |
7 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
8 | So one time I made a very sad mistake , Somebody pushed the bell , and I opened it and I said , I 'll have two bitters . |
9 | I made a very careful search in the area where this find was made but the site yielded no more gold coins . |
10 | … I mean a completely different development arising from computer logic but as unimaginable to us now as a Shakespearean character would have been to an oral-epic culture , and a different way of thinking about and rendering … all worldly phenomena , as revolutionary as the scientific spirit that slowly emerged out of the Renaissance and the Gutenberg galaxy . |
11 | No certainly not it 's not I mean a little old lady yes the lace has something to do with Nottingham Nottingham 's heritage we all know that . |
12 | Before I got married I led a pretty lively existence where women were concerned , and enjoyed it to the full . |
13 | I like experimenting and if I led a less erratic lifestyle I would do more of it . |
14 | ‘ You wait till I tear a very ugly strip off the old girl . |
15 | Soon after arriving in Pakistan , I met a very wise woman . |
16 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
17 | I make a very nice nettle tea , you know . |
18 | I make a much different statement in all my work — you can never compare us . |
19 | I make a more general criticism . |
20 | Later , after work , I got a pretty good look at these new pants of ours , as Tod stood before the full-length mirror unknotting the plump Windsor of his tie . |
21 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
22 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
23 | I must admit I got a less amiable response from another Prime Minister , Ted Heath . |
24 | I got a very good deal on the buoyancy aid . |
25 | I got a very bad feeling as we pitched into the bathroom and-fumbled for the mouthwash . |
26 | I got a very interesting letter from my fiance . |
27 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
28 | I 'd heard the voice of an angel — and when a meeting was eventually arranged between David and myself , through NEMS ' who were handling both of us at the time , I expected a very pimply youth to be standing there . |
29 | Some days after my daughter 's birth , our second child , I experienced a very deep sense of grief mixed with my joy , as I recognized that this small and perfect human life that had been born must grow old and die . |
30 | But I found a pretty deep hole where an extremely thick weedbed forms a roof over part of it . |