Example sentences of "i [verb] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This document is nice and clear plain English , but quite frankly some of the replies and some of the er , er things understood by the public , can we ensure that we do use plain English , I 've got no criticism with this , this is okay , but when we get the replies to our customers erm that we service can we use plain English , that 's my first point , do you want to respond or can I make my second one ? |
| 2 | I hide my sticky hand behind me , as if it 's brightly stained . |
| 3 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 4 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 5 | Both sports were clearly popular and well-established traditions ; but when I asked my Indian friends about their survival in modern Delhi , they all shook their heads . |
| 6 | I asked my old friend , Ricci Burns . |
| 7 | I asked my vital question : ‘ Will it run on XT ? ’ |
| 8 | But when I criticise a tremolo system for being awkward to change strings on , or a truss rod for being inaccessible , it 's because I change my own strings and adjust my own truss rod . |
| 9 | I commend my hon. Friends the Members for Rugby and Kennilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) and for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) for their overall appraisal of our policy . |
| 10 | I hugged my bursting shins , thinking , Ow , my fucking shins are bursting ! |
| 11 | Why should I want your filthy rotten possessions ? |
| 12 | She wiped her eyes with her dainty lace handkerchief and I wiped my own on the back of my hand . |
| 13 | If I sell my British Telecom shares , will I be taxed on any profits I make ? |
| 14 | Back at Stuart Street I cemented my new-found friendship with Doogie and Miranda by presenting them with the leg of lamb . |
| 15 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 16 | It was there that I made my one and only good find , not of course taking into account the brass washout pipe plate . |
| 17 | The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys . |
| 18 | But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry : |
| 19 | We did not make a direct trip for we took the train to London , then I made my first underground journey to Finsbury Park , the most northerly point on the tube at that time . |
| 20 | In these labs I made my first acquaintance with physics , scattering iron filings on a paper placed over a magnet to produce a pattern which I then had to reproduce in an exercise book . |
| 21 | She seated me on her right , and I made my first direct pass as soon as we sat down . |
| 22 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 23 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 24 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 25 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
| 26 | During the reception I made my first major mistake . |
| 27 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 28 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
| 29 | And hence Stephanie 's shock-horror performance when I made my innocent enquiries ? ’ |
| 30 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |