Example sentences of "i [verb] a [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 2 | CHOOSING my words carefully , I asked a top Mercedes-Benz diesel engineer some time ago which diesel he would drive — assuming that he could n't afford a Mercedes . |
| 3 | I mean a real Safeway , you know , the ones you see in the U S where everything you know , even the trolleys , are seven times bigger , erm n n not like they are , you know , the aliens land in the car park of the Maple Valley Safeways in Washington State , and , and observe people coming out of it with enormous piles of shopping . |
| 4 | " Look , I got a nice Beaujolais , " he said , showing it to me . |
| 5 | I got a second-hand Strat for about £70 . |
| 6 | Then I tried a different Durex , but I was allergic to them all . |
| 7 | This week I visited a young M.P. , a rising star of the Rhodesia Front , strong supporter of Smith , called Andrew . |
| 8 | I want a present Ian . |
| 9 | But I want a Labour Britain to play its full part in bringing about a nuclear-free world , ’ Mr Kaufman said . |
| 10 | I want a red Elphberg — and the King , our friend Johann says , is very red . |
| 11 | This time I used a grey Ingres paper and left it exposed in parts of the sky , as well as using it as an undertone to modify the colour put over it elsewhere . |
| 12 | Were I to own a new BMW car , another ten microcomputers would be at my command , so their advertisements claim . |
| 13 | At LimoRent on Third Avenue I hired a six-door Jefferson with cocktail bar , TV and telephone . |
| 14 | As I approached it I noticed a beige Renault outside with military markings . |
| 15 | I suspect a classic Washington compromise in the end . |
| 16 | I wear a greenish Barbour jacket with tight op-art leggings . |
| 17 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 18 | could I have a sweet Rob ? , where is it ? , out there ? |
| 19 | Can I have a light Dan ? |
| 20 | I suppose a New Yorker would have said ‘ Yes , ’ for prudence , but there was n't much lust in the air . |
| 21 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 22 | Do n't I recall a certain Richard Bach ( literary father of J.L. Seagull ) doing that self-same thing , and writing two beautiful books — Nothing by Chance and Biplane — about his bedsheets-and-bailing wire odyssey ? |
| 23 | I bought a new Wilson FM with a sliding table for tenoning , a reversing switch , roll-on and roll-off tables , all the whistles and bells that would make it a really useful machine . |
| 24 | Four years ago I bought a secondhand Toyota 858 and after ten minutes instruction , I was quite happy . |
| 25 | A few months ago I bought a secondhand Singer 2310 machine with an electric motor . |
| 26 | I introduced a weekly Sunday series called ‘ The Symphony Hour ’ , which I repeated in at least a dozen other cities around the world over the next 50 years . |
| 27 | Well we always used to have what I call a traditional Sunday dinner |
| 28 | I possessed a built-in Wigg pacifier that enabled reasonable transactions to be completed where otherwise he would be totally unreasonable . |
| 29 | After going to church I had a whole Sunday on Tiree , Snoopy-like with the moped . |
| 30 | I purchased a dedicated Pentax flashgun with an adjustable flash head which could be adjusted to point straight ahead or angled upwards . |