Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish you 'd let me explain to Old Red . |
| 2 | ‘ Arise ’ is a registered newspaper ; the publisher 's name is under the masthead ; you 'll find me listed as assistant editor . |
| 3 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 4 | I asked for certain research facilities and I got them . |
| 5 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 6 | I asked for professional counselling which I did n't get . ’ |
| 7 | I asked for special leave and borrowed the eighty pounds for a short-term return ticket on the letter-mail route to the UK . |
| 8 | I asked with careful innocence |
| 9 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 10 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
| 11 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know anything , ’ I repeat with exaggerated lethargy . |
| 13 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 14 | And where the beer did agree eventually , I mean under slight pressure . |
| 15 | Yeah i it 's n th that door looks miles away but I mean in actual fact it 's not very far , ever such a strange |
| 16 | Look I mean in actual fact , it 's probably well it should n't be |
| 17 | And now perhaps you understand what I mean by Personal Management . ’ |
| 18 | So what I mean by controlled access is nobody comes on i within to this flat complex , without er the se the security team knowing . |
| 19 | I mean like old age pensioners , you know they will buy the piece like that but |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't threaten me , ’ I whispered in false bravado , ‘ I am a fighting man ! ’ |
| 21 | Though I argued with eloquent indignation — Flora had only brought Adam along to carry her luggage , book rooms — I knew this in my heart . |
| 22 | These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology . |
| 23 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |
| 24 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 25 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 26 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 27 | ‘ I suffer from high-tone deafness , ’ he says . |
| 28 | I suffer from debilitating shyness , which means I socialise very rarely . |
| 29 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 30 | I planned for year-round interest and used such plants as climbing roses , clematis , jasmines , honeysuckle and Japanese quince . |