Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In my opinion in Ex parte Agegate Ltd. , the fact that the residence requirement was applicable to British citizens and nationals of other member states alike was the main element in the reasoning which led me to take the view , unlike the court , that that requirement was compatible with Community law : see para. 57 . |
| 32 | It is against this background that I approached the construction and which led me to prefer the interpretation which bases the assessment to tax upon the actual cost to the employer rather than the hypothetical cost arrived at by dividing the number of pupils into the total cost of providing full facilities . |
| 33 | So I suppose it was frustration that led me to break the cardinal rule of any diplomat behind the Iron Curtain in the good old days . |
| 34 | Crossing in Force 9 winds led me to lament the absence of a grab-rail in the shower . |
| 35 | One officer , a really nice screw , a senior officer called Mrs [ R ] , understood why I wanted to be moved off the pregnant house and got me moved the next day . |
| 36 | She made me sign the paper . ’ |
| 37 | You can either draw it model it made me draw the last one I 'll model it this time , it 's good fun ! |
| 38 | The woman said : ‘ A policeman made me move the car . |
| 39 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 40 | It also made me realise the risk of skyline walking . |
| 41 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 42 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 43 | Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans . |
| 44 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 45 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 46 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 47 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 48 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 49 | Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on . |
| 50 | ‘ If I 'd been bad he made me copy the notices and labels in cases . |
| 51 | Michael made me write the letter — three men are coming to kill you — three of the Six ! |
| 52 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 53 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |
| 54 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 55 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 56 | It made me recall the list of supposed super-powers of Ardakkeans . |
| 57 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 58 | Something made me snatch the woolly choirboy from its metal gallows ( even at that moment I noticed its surprising weight ) . |
| 59 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 60 | The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath . |