Example sentences of "i [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 2 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 3 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 4 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 5 | Suggesting that Murrin should be ‘ wired up ’ when he meets me , Hounam says anything which earns me only a slap on the wrist would n't be enough . |
| 6 | Oh I think I just a can of beer or cider , fuck Mark the wind 's killing me . |
| 7 | Most of you simply because they have no shame , now bringing it round to a spiritual thing , how can we show that we , where it describes there beggars for the spirit , it really means having no shame whatsoever in the truth , never hold back in demanding really , what your requirements are in the way of spiritual things and a good mirror to this is analyze yourself and ask yourself what am I like , am I really a beggar in spirit , what am I like when the magazines come ? |
| 8 | ‘ Am I simply a substitute for Jeanne ? ’ |
| 9 | He takes me aside a couple of times and begins in a soft Welsh lilt : ‘ I was thinking , now this might not be a good idea and tell me straight away if you do n't like it … ’ |
| 10 | Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it . ’ |
| 11 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 12 | I understand that you will be faxing to me today a request for banker 's details and credit references . |
| 13 | Or , imagine that the lights go out as Harry has just begun saying : ( 2 ) Listen , I 'm not disagreeing with you but with you , and not about this but about this Or , Suppose we find a bottle in the sea , and inside it a message which reads : ( 3 ) Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big We do not know who to meet , where or when to meet him or her , or how big a stick to bring . |
| 14 | For example , in Levinson 's ( 1983 ) well-known deictic utterance , Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big , there are certain words , such as me , here , now and this , which have part of their meaning which is context-sensitive . |
| 15 | Similarly , Benjamin 's description of cinematic form provokes immediate comparisons with the potential of recording and mixing techniques ( mike-positioning , rebalancing , dubbing , and so on ) for musical ‘ montage ’ and an ‘ analytical ’ revelation of new sound details and relationships ( for instance , Elvis Presley 's ‘ voice ’ — that is , the vocal ‘ image ’ we hear on his records — seems to me precisely a product of this kind of process ) . |
| 16 | He lured me there a couple of years ago to talk to his sixth form group about the Irish problem . |
| 17 | It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that . |
| 18 | But he bore no malice , and on the way back to the hotel gave me quite a run-down on his cousin Ena , who he said had once been Queen of Spain . |
| 19 | Still , the thought gave me quite a jolt of pleasure . |
| 20 | They did pressure me quite a lot about how I looked , but I never gave in to their attempts to convert me to pink ; I wanted to look different , and in the main I was quite happy with my image . |
| 21 | He told me quite a lot about his experiences during our stay in hospital together . |
| 22 | I was missing the warmth of the people , although my two years in the ‘ east ’ gave me quite a lot of material which you will discover in the following pages . |
| 23 | It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about , |
| 24 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |