Example sentences of "i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 2 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 3 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 4 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 5 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 6 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 7 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 8 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 9 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 10 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 11 | He was coming to stay with me for the British Grand Prix in three weeks , ’ said Lord Hesketh , now Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords . |
| 12 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 13 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 14 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 15 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 16 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole … |
| 17 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole . |
| 18 | Keld , like Thwaite , is a sleepy little place and will be forever remembered by me as the milkless village . |
| 19 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’ |
| 21 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 22 | I know no touch of consanguinity — No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus . |
| 23 | Very normal — father , mother , and me as the adored only child . |
| 24 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 25 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 26 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 27 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 28 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 29 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 30 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |