Example sentences of "i [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The advent of the Arbortech Carving Competition at the 1990 Woodworker Show gave me the idea of putting the tool to some good use . |
| 32 | This description gave me the idea of a soldier slipping silently through the jungle . |
| 33 | Q Could you please tell me the best method of fixing turned wooden handles to cutlery blanks ? |
| 34 | He was ( in retrospect ) surprisingly luke warm about the potential of cross-London links — ‘ show me the market ’ — although he was no doubt pleased to accept in this first year in office an offer from the GLC to fund the third-rail electrification over 8½ miles between Dalston and North Woolwich . |
| 35 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 36 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |
| 37 | He even jumped on me when asked to pose for a photo and , towering above me with his paws on my shoulders , gave me the most enormous , slobbering lick imaginable . |
| 38 | I wonder if you could possibly give me the address of the ‘ Dogs for the Disabled ’ charity , as I would like to send a donation but do n't know where to send it . |
| 39 | Though Conrad 's Narcissus runs it close , Crime and Punishment remains for me the most accessible and exciting novel in the world . |
| 40 | Parajournalism , creating to one side of the actual , seems to me the nub here . |
| 41 | From such a quarter this is significant testimony ( though it prompts in me the reflection that it takes one to know one ) . |
| 42 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 43 | Mr Ward told The Independent : ‘ Mr Rowland himself telephoned me the next day , said he was appalled at what had happened to my daughter , and gave me his direct line telephone number , saying he would be there every day from 9 to 6 . |
| 44 | ‘ I hope and pray that the decision to give me the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage all those who pursue the cause of peace to do so in a renewed spirit of optimism and strength . ’ |
| 45 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 46 | She taught me the basics : casting-on , how to knit and pearl , and I set to work . |
| 47 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 48 | Duval agrees : ‘ For me the real issue is programme choice , in the sense of what is actually scheduled . |
| 49 | A recent first visit to the USSR brought into focus for me the large question of evaluating music whose basis of appeal is grounded in extra-musical circumstances . |
| 50 | He then gave me the line , in Italian , from memory : ‘ Dimmi se mai fu fatto qualque cosa ? ’ — ‘ Tell me if anything was ever done ? ’ |
| 51 | He gave me the thumbs up sign then disappeared into his trench . |
| 52 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 53 | It is now the 6th September and my visits round the Commando units 3 , 4 , 6 and 45 Royal Commando , not forgetting French Commando , have made it clear to me the large number of casualties in this campaign . |
| 54 | The thought of the delicious lunch gave me the extra boost I needed to reach the summit . |
| 55 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 56 | ‘ Show me the results in advance , ’ says the barbarian state , ‘ and then I will give you money . |
| 57 | Years later he will show me the sketches he made with mud and chalk in the trenches , of fragile running men and tangled machines , lit up by exploding shells like arrested frames of film . |
| 58 | An old woman telling me the story of her life shat herself halfway through the Second World War . |
| 59 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 60 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |