Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 32 | ‘ I look forward to seeing you again soon , though I hope on a social rather than a professional basis . ’ |
| 33 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 34 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 35 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 36 | In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’ |
| 37 | er I know I look like a real goody goody and everything I 'm not really ! |
| 38 | ‘ I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins . |
| 39 | I look like a demented barber . |
| 40 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |
| 41 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
| 42 | I live quietly now , but every year Fritz and I meet in a little town outside Ruritania . |
| 43 | On the contrary , the older I get , the greater priority I give to a loving relationship . |
| 44 | Please , said a friend of this journal , egged on I suspect by a green-fingered two-year-old son , will you put in a word for the worm ? |
| 45 | The fact of the matter is , as far as the erm and I accept to a certain degree what Jack has just said , that the power for schools lies with the Governors , and it lies with the Governors because the Conservative Government has enacted legislation to allow that to happen . |
| 46 | I stand in a five-pointed star position in the middle of the room while the doghandler runs his hands along my limbs . |
| 47 | I stand in a light mist of rain . |
| 48 | ‘ I stand in a British book shop with my mouth agape . |
| 49 | ‘ You see , ’ he continued , smiling unpleasantly , ‘ I travel with a young man , a friend of mine , who roasts boys ' hearts and eats them . |
| 50 | I know I sound like a bloody know-all , but all I can say is , if that satisfies the police doctor , it does n't satisfy me . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ Miss Greene — I know I sound like a deuced newspaper reporter … ’ |
| 52 | Sorry I sound like a right right one but it does . |
| 53 | I sound like a nagging father . |
| 54 | I sound like a soppy young kid , do n't I ? |
| 55 | And their of first office as I recall as a little boy , was on the q quay as we used to say in Porthmadog . |
| 56 | Sergei draws black , so I open with a dull pawn to king four , which he mimics , as he does my next three moves . |
| 57 | I present below a short anthology of some of the views of some present Conservative Members of the House of Commons as they have been expressed in Parliament . |
| 58 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , seeing me mixing rose madder and burnt sienna in my paint-box , ‘ what 's all this I hear about a new mother ? ’ |
| 59 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 60 | ‘ I know as a public figure I am likely to be lampooned . |