Example sentences of "i [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hide my sticky hand behind me , as if it 's brightly stained . |
| 2 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 3 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 4 | Both sports were clearly popular and well-established traditions ; but when I asked my Indian friends about their survival in modern Delhi , they all shook their heads . |
| 5 | I asked my old friend , Ricci Burns . |
| 6 | I asked my vital question : ‘ Will it run on XT ? ’ |
| 7 | But when I criticise a tremolo system for being awkward to change strings on , or a truss rod for being inaccessible , it 's because I change my own strings and adjust my own truss rod . |
| 8 | I commend my hon. Friends the Members for Rugby and Kennilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) and for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) for their overall appraisal of our policy . |
| 9 | I hugged my bursting shins , thinking , Ow , my fucking shins are bursting ! |
| 10 | If I sell my British Telecom shares , will I be taxed on any profits I make ? |
| 11 | Back at Stuart Street I cemented my new-found friendship with Doogie and Miranda by presenting them with the leg of lamb . |
| 12 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 13 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 14 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
| 15 | The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys . |
| 16 | In these labs I made my first acquaintance with physics , scattering iron filings on a paper placed over a magnet to produce a pattern which I then had to reproduce in an exercise book . |
| 17 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 18 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
| 19 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 20 | And hence Stephanie 's shock-horror performance when I made my innocent enquiries ? ’ |
| 21 | I made my second journey to Cosford in 1980 , an Olympic year — though I had no aspirations in that direction . |
| 22 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 23 | It was then , with my other 's encouragement , that I started having lessons , and in 1975 I made my professional début . |
| 24 | I made my own way out of the station . |
| 25 | She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread . |
| 26 | I made my own mind up . |
| 27 | A month later , I made my third trip to Rhodesia . |
| 28 | It was then that I made my never-to-be-forgotten answer , ‘ Mum 's lost , down the fair . ’ |
| 29 | And me with my second-class honours degree , standing there with corns on my hands saying yes sir , no sir , till I made my smart answer , my quick repartee . |
| 30 | I made my original prediction because I believed that , whatever people said , once they got into a polling booth , lots of them simply would n't vote for Kinnock . |