Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What study area is available to me to work in , where a range of materials in readily to hand ? a question obviously involving the provision of a multi-media library . |
| 32 | It was useless for me to point out that the proposals were not those of the Government but of a group of advisers whose only power was to suggest . |
| 33 | It is useless for me to point out that scientific curiosity by itself is as irresponsible as the curiosity of a child . |
| 34 | for the empty , unoccupied homes that makes it very difficult for me to go along with my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay ( Mr. Allason ) , who wanted the 50 per cent . |
| 35 | All my subsequent attempts to find a mutually convenient time to meet have failed — mostly , I have to confess , because my term-time commitments in Oxford made it difficult for me get up to London except at hours when you were in Cabinet , or in the House . |
| 36 | It was extremely difficult for me to write down one good characteristic about myself , let alone ten , and it was quite evident that whereas I saw myself as perpetually black , I saw my wife , Joyce as shining white and a lot of other people in the same colour . |
| 37 | They dig trenches which make it difficult for me to get out ? |
| 38 | Well I told him that , that I was getting very tired but he would 've just worried about me coming back down you know |
| 39 | He liked her ; but then , he was keen for me to go out with anyone , as long as they were not boys or Indians . |
| 40 | I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along , rather that it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him . |
| 41 | It is hardly necessary for me to point out that should this advice be tendered and refused by Your Majesty , only one result could follow in accordance with the requirements of constitutional monarchy , that is , the resignation of myself and the National Government . |
| 42 | Indeed , he predeceased Sir Nelson , which made my task a little easier , inasmuch as it was not necessary for me to carry out complicated inquiries in India . |
| 43 | For this purpose it was not necessary for me to stay on at school after I was sixteen and attend university . |
| 44 | If Stuart feels it 's necessary for me to come off I will accept his decision . |
| 45 | Of course , he 's terribly anxious for me to settle down out there , marry Cora-Beth and become an American citizen , the way his father did years ago . |
| 46 | ‘ It 's just one of those dreams the urban yuppy like me goes in for , ’ he said . |
| 47 | I just came to see if the coffee was ready for me to take up to Papa . |
| 48 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 49 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |