Example sentences of "i [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 2 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
| 3 | The Principal offered me complete freedom to visit and photograph any part of the complex . |
| 4 | Using the structured eavesdropping technique allowed me complete freedom to sit and observe groups . |
| 5 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 6 | Jesus said just before he was living his disciples , his followers , you and me , he said you shall receive power after the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me yes we witness by our life but there 's a danger in making that a cop out , because one other requirement of a witness is that they talk , they 've got ta say what they know , these four men were good witnesses , they went back and they told the city what they had found , and there 's placed upon you and me that responsibility to go back and to tell what we 've found , this is a day of good tidings , we do wrong to keep silent . |
| 7 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 8 | An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift . " |
| 9 | Give me eight hours to get ready and you 're on . ’ |
| 10 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 11 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 12 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 13 | Perhaps through your letters page you will allow me this opportunity to urge all pencil manufacturers to consider making available their full range of leads ( coloured as well as graphite ) for holder use and saving annually a small forest of cedar wood and other trees used in producing the pleasing but expense and wasteful product . |
| 14 | Anyway , my sister 's bought me this thing to go round my neck . |
| 15 | When I reply to debates , it is my custom to have heard all the speeches that have been made , so it is unfortunate that pressing circumstances outside the House have led me this evening to commit the grave discourtesy of not being in my place to hear as many speeches as I should have liked . |
| 16 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 17 | And er the chap that tended her was er a locum , he were only a young chap , and er he says , Oh oh I 'm sorry , he says , I 'd better get me old man to come , he said I do n't suppose I 'll ever see another of these in my career . |
| 18 | ‘ You can give me another place to meet her at night-time , a more private place , which she can choose and no one will be able to find out . ’ |
| 19 | She gave me another form to fill in for housing benefit . |
| 20 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 21 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 22 | Another monster gave me some fruit to eat . |
| 23 | I 'm going to find me some controls to fly this thing . ’ |
| 24 | He gave me some answers to give you about your questions yesterday evening . ’ |
| 25 | That gave me some time to take my new bearings , and I enjoyed sitting late in the evening in the warmth of the Headmaster 's study thumbing through papers and timetables . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 27 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 28 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 29 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , it would take me some time to put my hands on that amount of money . |