Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | . Is it possible for you to give me a few more names — of some people who are working in that field ? ’ |
| 2 | BELVILLE : Do you think it is possible for you to love me preferably to any other of my sex ? |
| 3 | She was right about them letting me out . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm very grateful for his asking me over here . |
| 5 | And granddad does n't li want people to see him sort of you know when he has to get up and walk about and go to the loo with the door open and I mean it 's not so bad for us because we 're all related but it 's awful for You know I mean I ca n't imagine Jody or Jessica or Alison or anybody liking it very much . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I 'd make it easier for you to suck me off . ’ |
| 7 | How wrong of you to bring me away from the main road ! |
| 8 | ‘ You know , when they stop me in the street , at least half of them call me Mr Darcy . |
| 9 | Half of them think I 'm mad . |
| 10 | so half of me knew I was a woman |
| 11 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 12 | It was a moody holiday and I followed the roads ; some of them led me aright and some astray . |
| 13 | ‘ I think some of them recognize me , ’ Bill says . |
| 14 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |
| 15 | There have been changes and there will continue to be changes until some of them convince me they should be in the team regularly . ’ |
| 16 | Right , some of you know me , some of you do n't . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of you thought I could n't do it , ’ chuckled Pipe , who then gave credit to Dickinson for the role he played in Granville Again 's timely revival . |
| 18 | ‘ And I want some of you to help me look for the others . |
| 19 | Erm I do recognise some faces , I know some of you recognise me and eh cos we 've done quite a lot of things together , but this afternoon what I 'm going to tell you about is how I fit in with Council , I do n't think any of you know that or know what the Local Government Unit is . |
| 20 | We stayed at The Golden Cross , an old coaching-inn in the Cornmarket , and this in itself enchanted me , with its charm of sloping floors and crooked beams . |
| 21 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 22 | I 'm not interested in you telling me what those meaning are or coming out with kind of y'know ideas that crossing your arms means that you 're defensive or anything like that . |
| 23 | Only that you have a sharp tongue and an undisciplined sister , neither of which attributes I find endearing . |
| 24 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Since we broke up a year ago I 've been through so many relationships , and my songs are now a lot more about being really fickle with women , and not knowing who I like , and being really insecure about who likes me . ’ |
| 26 | But what really made it impossible for anyone to convict me was when , to my astonishment , a frail , bent old man appeared in the witness box . |
| 27 | Not easy for her to deny me , I 'd assumed she meant , not easy to continue denying herself . |
| 28 | The whole movement is conceived in cases such as She got me to break down the door , which have been diagrammed as : In this sense , the infinitive can be said to evoke a subsequent actualization , i.e. an event which is actualized as a consequence of a previous event bringing it into being . |
| 29 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 30 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |