Example sentences of "i [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 2 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 3 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 4 | ‘ What do I need with a childish , fickle tease like you ? |
| 5 | ’ Do I qualify as a nice man who lets you get on with your work in your own way and as far as possible on your own initiative ? ’ |
| 6 | But how could I achieve in a few minutes what I had failed to accomplish after hours of trying ? |
| 7 | What then do I do with a capable but unproductive pupil ? |
| 8 | By now some may well be asking ‘ Where can I look for a spiritual director ? |
| 9 | Did I look like a rag-and-bone man ? |
| 10 | ‘ Come on , Wyatt Earp ’ she said , ‘ do I look like a hog-tied sheep to you ? ’ |
| 11 | Erm in actual fact I do n't w I work in a non-catholic school . |
| 12 | May I conclude with a frightening thought for Labour . |
| 13 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 14 | Do I pass to a rootless , wandering , no-woman 's land , or is this a new beginning — the natural , though perhaps premature , order of things ? |
| 15 | He said that if the SS took them away , would I go to a certain street in Berlin , to a certain family and tell them . |
| 16 | Do you keep it or should I go to a larger store ? ’ |
| 17 | Never did I embark on a foreign visit with more keenness ; for I felt that time was short , and that such an opportunity might never recur . |
| 18 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 19 | Soho , meanwhile , enthuse and make me feel like a miserable old fart . |
| 20 | He was the ideal of all the friends I had ever longed for , the elder brother that , as an only child , I could never hope for — though he was at least fifteen years younger than I , his assurance and absolute maleness made me feel like a younger brother by contrast . |
| 21 | SHE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT . |
| 22 | Let me begin with a semantic query . |
| 23 | You make me sound like a Victorian governess ! ’ |
| 24 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 25 | " Well , why the bloody Hell did n't you say so out there when we was with them instead of making me look like a bloody fool ? " |
| 26 | God that makes me look like a good player that , does n't it ? |
| 27 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 28 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 29 | It helps me relax after a hard day 's rapping about controversial political and social issues . |
| 30 | Let me take as a telling example the facts regarding human sexual dimorphism . |