Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
| 32 | I want to know about the nearest sports centre and the types of sport which go on there . |
| 33 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 34 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 35 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 36 | Such is the burden of what I hope to argue in the next chapters . |
| 37 | My records indicate that I am now holding on to two , one of which I hope to use in the Annual Report . |
| 38 | But , as novelists are well aware , it is true , as I hope to show in the final chapter , that houses have an autonomous being of their own : ‘ I 've no control over the saucy things , ’ Margaret Schlegel complains in Howards End , ‘ Houses are alive . ’ |
| 39 | It will form the basis of a treaty which the President and I hope to sign during the official visit to Britain which he will make later this year . |
| 40 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 41 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 42 | But , late in the evening , he enquired without ceremony ‘ What am I going to do about the direct-grant schools ? ’ |
| 43 | I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel . |
| 44 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 45 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 46 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 47 | A cat dashed over my feet at one point and I began to think about the disembodied hand in the film . |
| 48 | I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class . |
| 49 | Then I began to walk along the old coach road . |
| 50 | ‘ I like to go round the local park in Bognor and photograph squirrels , ’ he says . |
| 51 | Answering the question ‘ why read romances ? ’ by picking the statement , ‘ Because I like to read about the strong , virile heroes ’ , is likely to be interpreted as the reader 's view of masculinity , rather than a comment on the textual function of the male hero in the romance . |
| 52 | ‘ I like to look for the distinctive features of a location , features that we can key into to get a synergy of strengths , ’ she says . |
| 53 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 54 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 55 | I decided to look at the local statistics for asthma deaths in West Cumbria from the public health department for the years 1980 to 1989 . |
| 56 | After beginning to interview people in depth , I realised that , to explain this juxtaposition of apparently contradictory values within individuals , I needed to go beyond the conceptual framework set by clinicians and sociologists alike . |
| 57 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 58 | FIGURE 1 Working on brown Ingres paper I started to experiment with the graphic qualities of the Chisel-edged pastels by reversing out a basic shape for the hedge |
| 59 | I chose to write on the Holy Spirit myself for a very definite reason . |
| 60 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |