Example sentences of "[vb -s] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Look , I 'll promise you one thing : I 'll not marry Kitty McKenna , not even if she sends me another tie . ’ |
| 32 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 33 | Letterman tells me that casting in Paris is going well . |
| 34 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 35 | ‘ My son tells me one article appeared and he counted thirty-seven inaccuracies in it . |
| 36 | I exclaimed : ‘ Your Excellency tells me one thing today and another tomorrow ! |
| 37 | He tells me endless stories about Alice , and talks about his school quite a bit too . |
| 38 | Joey tells me last night he said oh by the way he said you do n't wan na hire your car up er the Berry 's . |
| 39 | And one lasts me six months . |
| 40 | Everything I read , everything I hear , everything I see informs me that doubt , disease and distress in all the subtlest malignancies of their forms have at last invaded the cropped lawn and the sleepy garden wail . |
| 41 | It also gives me divided views . |
| 42 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
| 43 | MY PENTAX GIVES ME PERFECT PICTURES EVEN WITHOUT FILM . |
| 44 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
| 45 | This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions . |
| 46 | And it gives me great pleasure to personally invite you and your guest , to spend a luxurious weekend on the Craigendarroch Country Estate , just a few miles from Balmoral in the heart of Royal Deeside . |
| 47 | " It gives me great pleasure , Madame Sherman , to welcome you and your son to the imperial court of Annam , " he said politely . |
| 48 | It gives me great pleasure to wish AEA Technology and their new journal Competitive Edge every success in their efforts to assist the technology transfer process . |
| 49 | Congress , it gives me great pleasure to declare congress open . |
| 50 | Thank you very much , er , conference , and indeed it gives me great pleasure to address you this morning . |
| 51 | It gives me great pleasure to commend to the House the fourth report by the Select Committee on Social Security . |
| 52 | And now let us proceed with the next business of the day , it gives me great pleasure your Royal Highness to er invite you to present several Save The Children awards this morning . |
| 53 | It gives me great pleasure because people are extremely kind and extremely generous . |
| 54 | But it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mark Lennox Boyd , the parliamentary under secretary of state , the foreign and commonwealth office , a position he 's held for some time . |
| 55 | Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ? |
| 56 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 57 | Bailey gives me instant coffee and a plate of Tesco jam doughnuts , still in their plastic packet , and we sit at a dusty picnic table outside , slapping off flies . |
| 58 | Nobody gives me fifty dollars . " |
| 59 | What gives me greatest pride is that it means Courtaulds will end the century in the same business it started . |
| 60 | This gives me strong blacks . |