Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 2 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 3 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 4 | The disinterested passions compel me to see from other viewpoints , but also blind me to the equality of viewpoints . |
| 5 | You 've raised me to sit in high places |
| 6 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 7 | If you have any recipes that work particularly well , please let me know for future editions of this book . |
| 8 | When I asked about local amnesties , I was told : ’ It is for chief officers of police to consider whether offering opportunities for disposing of offensive weapons would be a worthwhile crime prevention initiative in their own force area . ’ |
| 9 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 10 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 11 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 12 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |
| 13 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 14 | I mean with ordinary ones |
| 15 | Well an an an and I , it seems to me that the , the er I mean you go , you go to the er to the M S Society and you find just about everybody there , you know , you find people who , who are in wheelchairs , you find people who are walking around , you find people who are er controlling their diet you find people who are obs s taking extreme dietary precautions , no , not precautions , no they are taking extreme care of their diet , er er I mean on gluten-free diets and you know what that means |
| 16 | " I mean about Apache Indians and all . " |
| 17 | I mean in other words we 'll now have a proper strategy the Vale of the White Horse , which was always an area of the county where the County Council services to the elderly was poorer than elsewhere . |
| 18 | That 's what I mean by artificial jobs . |
| 19 | Oh cha chapel Later on , I mean er you know when you got to ten , eleven , ch there were so many things at chapel , I mean from learned dissertations , I mean the gentlemen from the University , here . |
| 20 | I do n't know , probably not , I mean he does n't wear his , I mean like proper trousers |
| 21 | for a while I was in the Air Force and then I lived in various parts of the country . |
| 22 | I lived in different parts duck . |
| 23 | It may even give passers-by the impression of drunkenness , which is why some people carry a card or note to say , ‘ I suffer from bad attacks of giddiness . ’ |
| 24 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 25 | I shall also ensure that , in future when I land on unlicensed fields , I land as short and slow as possible . |
| 26 | Then I pounce with devastating questions to expose their guilt . |
| 27 | I got on first-name terms with the other managers-in-the-making . |
| 28 | Between them Caroline and M have every quality I hate in other women . |
| 29 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
| 30 | I will also devote some time to topic work because of the importance I attach to integrated approaches to learning . |