Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] of " 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 | Somebody took me to see one of their pubs in Liverpool it was wonderful ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He says he wants me to meet some of his friends . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As the hon. Gentleman said , he let me know some of his particular areas of interest in advance . |
| 16 | I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally . |
| 17 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
| 18 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |
| 19 | And then of course as soon as I started the chemotherapy I became one of them and I started not to notice . |
| 20 | I became convinced of it and then … well , I was determined to find her . ’ |
| 21 | In short , I became convinced of my own omnipotence . |
| 22 | Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) . |
| 23 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 24 | Walking with Ladislav , I became aware of just how noisy a city Prague is , with its trams and cars with broken or inadequate silencers . |
| 25 | As I fiddled frantically with buttons that would n't depress and a monopod that would n't telescope downwards so I could actually see what professional fingers find in the dark , I became aware of the incredulous stare of a Japanese with an even bigger lens than mine . |
| 26 | Almost as soon as I became aware of the existence of crofting , I became aware of some of the pressure that were making change inevitable . |
| 27 | Almost as soon as I became aware of the existence of crofting , I became aware of some of the pressure that were making change inevitable . |
| 28 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 29 | But I was to discover another facet of Soviet hospital life when , after the last meal of the day at six o'clock , I became aware of a plaintive female voice outside my window . |
| 30 | As I entered the cobbled main street , I became aware of a feeling of unease . |