Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a compensation scheme and the laibon wishes me to drive one of his sons fifty miles to a small town to collect the papers . |
| 2 | Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city . |
| 3 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 4 | " I make the tree stand up , if you let me make some of them little colour things . " |
| 5 | The terms of desire , fantasy and the unconscious as they have functioned for film theory seem to me to lose much of their explanatory power at the level of subjectivity and identification , and it may be , as Gillian Skirrow has suggested for video games , that television can be more adequately thought through a theory of object relations . |
| 6 | You would n't catch me using one of them . |
| 7 | He asked me to go full-time with him , but I said I was committed to Frank . |
| 8 | Somebody took me to see one of their pubs in Liverpool it was wonderful ! |
| 9 | You know I , I , I mean I have n't written this one and it makes it quite difficult for me to see some of the questions , but I actually write I think that 's the most important thing in training is asking questions er and I 'll perhaps bring down some examples to show you . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've forced me to sit cross-legged for hours leaning against a wall with my fingertips . ’ |
| 11 | It was very hot that year and he liked me to sit naked on a chair in the courtyard garden while I read to him . ’ |
| 12 | Let me phrase these in terms of my criteria of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |
| 13 | ‘ Let me explain first about the insurance , ’ she began . |
| 14 | That 's a cyclamen , two I 'd had me given that at our family party , we have a family party once a year |
| 15 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 16 | They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others . |
| 17 | He says he wants me to meet some of his friends . |
| 18 | erm let me consider first of all the minor claim , and here I think it 's only fair to tell you that I 'm not a palaeotologist . |
| 19 | Now let me consider some of the situations which lead to poor welfare ; these have a variety of different effects on animals and I will go over them rapidly . |
| 20 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 21 | Well Bill wo n't let me fall asleep on the settee . |
| 22 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 23 | As the hon. Gentleman said , he let me know some of his particular areas of interest in advance . |
| 24 | I became involved with the Union ( ACTTS ) when an Equal Opportunities Policy Working Party was set up by them in 1984 . |
| 25 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 26 | I became involved with him some years ago when I was consulted by Lord Rayne who told me that he had a friend — a leading paediatrician in London — whose daughter was in serious trouble . |
| 27 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 28 | I have always loved dogs and I became involved with the association when I met a lady who was also involved in puppy training . |
| 29 | Being aware of the stress and pressure that many people and their families experience when AIDS or HIV is first diagnosed , I became involved in counselling . |
| 30 | Being aware of the stress and pressures that many people and their families experience with AIDS or HIV is first diagnoses , I became involved in counselling . |