Example sentences of "i [verb] a special [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I make a special request ? |
| 2 | ‘ Non , Inspector , everyone had the same — oh , save for the Prince of Wales for whom I made a special soup . ’ |
| 3 | an awful lot of pressure if your name is in it , but I got a special pleasure when I organized the reading from Salman Rushdie 's book . |
| 4 | I got a special mouse hat . |
| 5 | Erm secondly I propose a special resolution , resolution two , set out in the notice of the meeting to create and allot fifty thousand preference shares of U S dollars , a hundred er , each and a hundred billion er , preference shares of one pound each er , I put the resolution to the meeting those in favour any against ? |
| 6 | I received a special mark of confidence from him , just before the 1964 election , when he was anxious to retrieve some papers from his home in Hampstead Garden Suburb . |
| 7 | ‘ But I know a special place , in the campagna — in the country — where you will see vineyards and ancient castles and rolling hills , where we can drink a wine that the gods would have kept for themselves if they could . ’ |
| 8 | I pay a special tribute to my right hon. Friend the Minister for Overseas Development . |
| 9 | No no no no no I thought a special celebration . |
| 10 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
| 11 | Last year I took a special interest in Arrow , believing it to be the major threat to Transworld . |
| 12 | But may I add a special welcome to the unsung heroines and heroes who are not permanent staff , but give up their time — and in some cases their entire annual leave — to work for the Festival when the high pressure time arrives . |
| 13 | Before we came away , I bought a special cream supposed to restore elasticity to the skin , but I destroyed the wrapper on the jar and the accompanying , incriminating literature , as furtively as I had , when young , removed the cover of a book on sex . ) |
| 14 | A Buckinghamshire village boy ‘ liked best to go and stay ’ with a farming grandmother , finding a ‘ special quiet ’ and ‘ peace ’ about her ; while a Yorkshire weaver 's son who went to stay with his grandmother for several weeks ‘ during family sickness ’ always kept the bond they made then — ‘ religious , yet loving , although seemingly cold , perhaps I had a special bit of her love , for she corrected me with thrashing me . ’ |
| 15 | I had a special ticket , because I was a newspaper reporter . |
| 16 | I had a special concession from … from someone . ’ |
| 17 | I arrange a special thing for them , and they tend to do things very quickly , and take only one or two lessons . |
| 18 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 19 | I have a special licence in my pocket , you see . ’ |
| 20 | Karaoke started here and I have a special dish called Sushi . |
| 21 | I have a special horse . |
| 22 | I have a special calendar , and I cross off each day when I go to bed , and then I lie there and think of you . |
| 23 | I must prepare to say at this point that I have a special report on the Colville Road area to er er committee , not just on the now but I think we probably need to have further consultation with regard to the needs in that area . |
| 24 | I do n't have to tell you , but for you I have a special place in my heart . |