Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For someone who can give an object as plain and manageable as a book all the symmetry and neatness of a loosely wrapped food blender , the prospect of getting cumbersome gardening tools into a parcel terrifies me . |
| 2 | A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder . |
| 3 | Before reaching for a celebratory pack of full-fat peanuts , a question strikes me : perhaps my level is too low ? |
| 4 | If a girl says I want to be a nurse , is she asked well erm have you thought about becoming a manager of a hospital if you start off in nursing ; can you see your way ; how would you get to that position if you become a you know I just wonder , erm I doubt very much that that goes on . |
| 5 | ‘ Will I have a baby if a boy kisses me ? ’ |
| 6 | It is not something I would dispute with you ; your insistence on a name amuses me . |
| 7 | A friend says I 've got too many pensions . |
| 8 | A FRIEND tells me of a post-electoral poster war which has broken out in his salubrious street in north Kensington , London , quite different in tone from the good-humoured gobbing on one another 's doorsteps which characterised neighbourly relations during the three weeks preceding the day that the revolution failed to dawn . |
| 9 | " Having a baby makes me feel a lot older and more mature . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm on my feet a lot of the day — washing and cooking for a man keeps me busy ’ |
| 11 | " If a man loves me " , Jesus taught , " he will keep my word , and my Father will love him , and we will come to him and make our home with him … and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father 's who sent me . " |
| 12 | If a lunatic attacks me , I am surely entitled to defend myself , even though he is not criminally responsible for his conduct . |
| 13 | ‘ This is the first time we have exported Bovril cubes anywhere , ’ a spokesman tells me . |
| 14 | As we talk , a thought haunts me : that Rob Lowe 's story is just the public and melodramatic version of a whole decade . |
| 15 | I mean a thought strikes me erm , you know , maybe this is very much to do with the war . |
| 16 | But a man of five foot carrying a knife frightens me . |
| 17 | When I attempt to run LOTUS 1-2-3 Release 3.0 from windows a message tells me that I have attempted to run a protected-mode application in 386 enhanced and to change to WIN /S or WIN /R . |
| 18 | A bargain makes me feel threatened and seriously in need of urgent hospital treatment : depressed and unsure of myself . |
| 19 | Though why he wants to call himself a doctor beats me . |
| 20 | A LETTER reproves me for singling out rotten spelling in other places , notably The Guardian , and goes on to point out that this magazine is not immune . |
| 21 | A nurse takes me down a corridor into a white room with painted-shut windows and a hot-air vent . |
| 22 | yes and that , that in a way leads me on to the next party , if we 're gon na have an agreement between this group or , you know , the other group |
| 23 | And marriage and being a mother terrifies me for that reason . |
| 24 | And I remember the first talkie I ever heard , I walked in the elite one night , with the wife and er as we walked in we hear a chap says I 'm I am . |