Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You trust me to drive without keeping a constant watch ? ’ |
| 2 | It makes me think of going there too , getting away from this cesspit where nothing changes and finding dollars in America . ’ |
| 3 | And that seems to me to go against having a strategic policy but what we 're talking about is the interface at a local level between development and and protecting the countryside and that 's quite rightly where the decisions should be made . |
| 4 | It 's still hard for me to cope with seeing so many people everywhere . ’ |
| 5 | So if you want to get me fined for talking you 're in the wrong place . ’ |
| 6 | I know it was irresponsible and unforgivable of me to disappear on opening night . ’ |
| 7 | I look forward to the lessons and always feel better immediately , but the difficulty with me lies in trying to maintain my awareness between the lessons , but this is gradually becoming easier . |
| 8 | I do n't know whether there is a charge for this ; if there is , please would you let me know before sending the report as all expenditure has to be authorised by a meeting of the Parish Council . |
| 9 | If she reads this , or if any one reading it knows of her present whereabouts or has any information which would help me contact her , would they please let me know by writing to me at . |
| 10 | James , Point taken ( see below ) but in the absence of any ftp site at the moment , if anybody would like more leeds gifs they could let me know by mailing myself and not the list . |
| 11 | What excuse could I make for going out into the garden ? " |
| 12 | I asked about feeding , but Bill makes short shrift of this too — once a fortnight with Phostrogen . |
| 13 | I asked about changing . |
| 14 | For instance , Skipper was not impressed with my suggesting that he should stand still while I got on and wait until I asked before moving off . |
| 15 | So with a series of jerky motions I pumped that handle , but all I succeeded in producing was the sound of a set of bagpipes . |
| 16 | It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain . |
| 17 | I was lucky : I succeeded in getting ticks . |
| 18 | So I succeeded in training her to feed on the fist . |
| 19 | Independently of a great number of new Birds I succeeded in procuring the nests and eggs of at least two thirds of the species inhabiting that interesting region . |
| 20 | Finally I succeeded in persuading her to try . |
| 21 | The weather being too boisterous to admit of a boat being lowered , I endeavoured to capture the bird with a hook and line , and the ordinary sea-hooks being too large for the purpose , I was in the act of selecting a hook from my stock of salmon-flies , when a sudden gust of wind blew my hooks , and a piece of parchment ten inches long by six inches wide on which they were lying , overboard into the sea , and I was obliged to give up the attempt for that day ; on the next I succeeded in capturing the bird with a hook baited with fat , and the reader may judge of my surprise when on opening the stomach I there found the piece of parchment , so completely uninjured that it was dried and again restored to its original use. , |
| 22 | I shook the embryos rather violently during their two-cell stage , and in several instances , I succeeded in killing one of the cells , while the other one was not damaged … |
| 23 | Anyway , in the course of these preliminary studies I succeeded in identifying certain exceedingly small but specific bodies in genes . |
| 24 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 25 | It was only to Pam that I admitted to feeling guilty and ashamed of the wave of relief I felt at her funeral , as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders . |
| 26 | Now I happen to be an extravert , so if I compensate by smoking this will keep me a perfectly balanced and healthy human being . |
| 27 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 28 | I refrain from naming the books in case you have yet to read them . |
| 29 | Sailing mostly single-handed , and being like the rest of twentieth-century man a prisoner of time , I cheated by having an outboard engine to keep me going when the elements did n't help . |
| 30 | This sort of behaviour is very irritating and eventually I resorted to giving him a kick . |