Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked about local amnesties , I was told : ’ It is for chief officers of police to consider whether offering opportunities for disposing of offensive weapons would be a worthwhile crime prevention initiative in their own force area . ’ |
| 2 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 3 | I asked for certain research facilities and I got them . |
| 4 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 5 | I asked for professional counselling which I did n't get . ’ |
| 6 | I asked for special leave and borrowed the eighty pounds for a short-term return ticket on the letter-mail route to the UK . |
| 7 | As soon as I had complaints , I asked for detailed statistical material to be provided . |
| 8 | I asked with careful innocence |
| 9 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 10 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 11 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
| 12 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 13 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 14 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 15 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 16 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |
| 17 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know anything , ’ I repeat with exaggerated lethargy . |
| 19 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 20 | I mean with ordinary ones |
| 21 | Well an an an and I , it seems to me that the , the er I mean you go , you go to the er to the M S Society and you find just about everybody there , you know , you find people who , who are in wheelchairs , you find people who are walking around , you find people who are er controlling their diet you find people who are obs s taking extreme dietary precautions , no , not precautions , no they are taking extreme care of their diet , er er I mean on gluten-free diets and you know what that means |
| 22 | " I mean about Apache Indians and all . " |
| 23 | And where the beer did agree eventually , I mean under slight pressure . |
| 24 | Yeah i it 's n th that door looks miles away but I mean in actual fact it 's not very far , ever such a strange |
| 25 | Look I mean in actual fact , it 's probably well it should n't be |
| 26 | Or or the rest I mean in general |
| 27 | I mean in other words we 'll now have a proper strategy the Vale of the White Horse , which was always an area of the county where the County Council services to the elderly was poorer than elsewhere . |
| 28 | I mean in particular the Villa Diodati , where the poet Milton once stayed ? |
| 29 | so I mean in particular its alright if there 's a good film worth watching , for that I 'd sit up till twelve |
| 30 | And now perhaps you understand what I mean by Personal Management . ’ |