Example sentences of "i [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 2 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 3 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 4 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 5 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 6 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 7 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 8 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 9 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 10 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 11 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 12 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 13 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole … |
| 14 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole . |
| 15 | Keld , like Thwaite , is a sleepy little place and will be forever remembered by me as the milkless village . |
| 16 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’ |
| 18 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 19 | I know no touch of consanguinity — No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus . |
| 20 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 21 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 22 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 23 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
| 24 | The feeling of numb unreality persisted and anaesthetised me through the arduous business of identifying the body and making the necessary arrangements . |
| 25 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 26 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
| 27 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 28 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 29 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 30 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |