Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 2 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
| 3 | I got it second-hand from a foundry in Sunderland that closed down last year . |
| 4 | I expect nothing short of a bloodbath . |
| 5 | I found myself alone with a man the skin of whose face had the texture of hide , tanned the colour of stout . |
| 6 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 7 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |
| 8 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 9 | Shortly after Dick took off in his P-40 , Bill Dodds and I joined him airborne in a T-6 . |
| 10 | I know they open on a Sunday now . |
| 11 | I like it dry as a bone , " Aunt Tossie was saying . |
| 12 | ‘ I prefer this means of transport because I find it consonant with a certain feeling I have about myself — because it expresses a certain style of being that I find congenial — because I find the kinaesthetic sensations it affords , even the physical efforts and nervous tension , somehow involving . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I saw something white in a clump of leaves . |