Example sentences of "i [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 2 | ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground . |
| 3 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 4 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 5 | Did I make any deals , brush up any publishing contacts ? |
| 6 | Mr Y wrote me a note , ‘ would I make some notes on her , there is a possibility of her going into the unit ’ ( withdrawal unit for disruptive pupils ) . |
| 7 | I asked many Goans if they disliked the freakish visitors , and their verdicts were almost unanimous . |
| 8 | I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it . |
| 9 | SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up . |
| 10 | I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’ |
| 11 | The reason I cite these tales is that they do have a bearing on one another , albeit a tenuous . |
| 12 | Finally , in Soviet bureaucracy as in any other , there are perils in drawing too firmly the lines between policy , advice and implementation , but I introduce these distinctions here in order to keep confusion within bounds . |
| 13 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 14 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 15 | Whilst it might be unusual for , probably unique in fact , for a to thank a , can I reassure all delegates we are not related so rumour has it . |
| 16 | He did his usual practice stint , during which I endured more jokes from the other caddies and from some of the players about my sudden fame . |
| 17 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 18 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 19 | There I made many friends . |
| 20 | I made many friends among them . |
| 21 | Of course , I made many mistakes in my new life as King . |
| 22 | I made many speeches during the passage of that legislation . |
| 23 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 24 | Then dad and I made some cakes and I put notices about the sale through the neighbours ' doors in Swadlincote in Derbyshire , where we live . |
| 25 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 26 | I made some mistakes — for example not realising that the maintenance would be quite hard work . |
| 27 | I made some bets and they came good . |
| 28 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 29 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 30 | Then on the opposite page I saw ‘ insurance ’ and thought that looks interesting , so I made some enquiries . |