Example sentences of "[vb -s] i a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend offers me an enticing invitation which I shall consider taking up . |
| 2 | and also supplies me a great deal of work . |
| 3 | he needs me a new home |
| 4 | ‘ Until we 've got stable testing , that worries me a great deal . ’ |
| 5 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 6 | So I would have thought would be better to buy low sulphur contented diesel rather than analyse it , and in c thirteen , it worries me a little bit , because I believe that the district councils are the drainage authorities with the right about land drainage , and it was taken away from the county council several years ago . |
| 7 | Well this is the thing that worries me a little bit , but can I say |
| 8 | No one casts me a single glance . |
| 9 | He buys me a double Jameson 's . |
| 10 | He hands me a folded Guardian so we can work the indoor drop . |
| 11 | He hands me a different picture . |
| 12 | He hands me a white envelope . |
| 13 | He hands me a brown manila file , and a handwritten invoice which I imagine he is giving to me now while the connection between the reams of faxes and the many noughts , in local shillings , of his invoice is still fresh . |
| 14 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 15 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 16 | In she comes for her pension , takes it without a by-your-leave then calls me a bloody wog and tells me to go home to where I come from . ’ |
| 17 | Miss Eames calls me an old-fashioned word : Dunce . |
| 18 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
| 19 | " What if he asks me a direct question ? " |
| 20 | It gives me a good feeling . ’ |
| 21 | The second and third weekend I get to the lake just before daybreak armed with a pair of binoculars and settle down for a couple of hours in a spot which gives me a good view of all , or most , of the water . |
| 22 | This gives me a strange feeling of relief . |
| 23 | Indeed , every time I hug him , my old mate , the White Poplar gives me a new lead , a hotline to earth . |
| 24 | This gives me a printed list of subdirectories on my hard disk . |
| 25 | Then pulls me down beside her , and gives me a sisterly squeeze . |
| 26 | It gives me a tremendous advantage in that I can moor the punt about 15yds back from the top of the shelf , in the shallower water , out of sight of the bream . |
| 27 | Working also gives me a great sense of independence . |
| 28 | ‘ You know , Frome , it gives me a great deal of pleasure to think of you as head boy here next year . |
| 29 | And I must say that gives me a great pleasure . ’ |
| 30 | I must say it gives me a certain amount of pleasure too . ’ |