Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Graham refused to single out Wright for special condemnation after a stormy game featuring five bookings , saying : ‘ It would not be right for me to focus on just one player . |
| 2 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 3 | At the end we er , of the day I had to opt out because it was n't possible for me to fit in and someone else a , I 'm just thinking of the time taken for er , er housing manager or one of his er , staff to erm er , you know , to do that practical thing that 's all |
| 4 | Is it not just as strange for me to state out loud ‘ p , but I do n't have any vocal chords ’ ? |
| 5 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 6 | I indicated a chair and she nodded that it was OK for me to sit down . |
| 7 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 8 | ‘ She was afraid of me going up there , was n't she ? |
| 9 | Now you 've made it impossible for me to carry out an interview despite the fact I 've been extremely patient " |
| 10 | If I 'd met you earlier the fact that I 'm married would have made it impossible for me to take off and fly with you like this . |
| 11 | It was too early for me to think up a brilliant reply . |
| 12 | It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I mean one of getting round that is erm for Derek and I to transcribe them because then it 's fairly easy for me to turn round and say Listen to this . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have been easy for me to bring in someone without any experience and ease them into the job , ’ said Stapleton , now 36 . |
| 15 | It was easy for me to summon up this everyday vision , because whenever I sat on the toilet the hem was stretched between my calves , and if I leant forward it was always the salient object in my view . |
| 16 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
| 17 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 18 | Can you tell me , do you know if it will be okay for me to come in at quarter past four ? |
| 19 | So it 's perfectly fine for me to transcribe on |
| 20 | I 'm supposed to me meeting up with halvard on sunday when he comes up to newcastle , but I think he left for england before I had time to mail him my phone number . |
| 21 | That is why I think it is good for me to go back to Scotland to remember that there is a world outside London and television . |
| 22 | And then I come down to Kerry all winter because it 's not good for me to stay up there myself all winter and I have got good lodgings here . |
| 23 | It is good for me to get out and do the shopping ; I enjoy that bit of fresh air every day , and it is something I have got to do because this is when I meet people . |
| 24 | When he was dead , it was far too late for me to opt out . |
| 25 | However , these were now too low and my prospects too poor for me to continue along that track . |
| 26 | This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair . |
| 27 | As he pointed out , it was n't safe for me to go back on my own . |
| 28 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 29 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 30 | And then starts getting used to me coming back on days nex week after then . |