Example sentences of "i [to-vb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pleasure to me to see the housewifely way in which Mr Wilson set about everything . |
| 2 | At present I require assistance to help me to choose the most suitable occupation . |
| 3 | ‘ Trust me to pick the most expensive . ’ |
| 4 | Mr. Beazley invites me to give a very broad interpretation to paragraph 12 of the Kalfelis [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 5565 judgment and to say that all these swap actions fall broadly within the test that it is expedient to hear and determine them together ; he argues that the use of the plural in that paragraph shows that the principle there laid down covers several defendants in groups of actions as well as several defendants in an individual action ; and he submits that there is a risk here of irreconcilable judgments , seeing that both at first instance and thereafter , if the cases proceed up to the appellate process , different decisions may be reached in England and Scotland respectively , on the questions of English law which arise ( there is no suggestion that Scottish law applies to these actions ) . |
| 5 | ‘ There is obviously more to Froggy 's murder than meets the eye and , despite the bullying phone call , my editor , God bless him , wants me to do a little more digging . |
| 6 | Well I have much it was much easier for me to study the once . |
| 7 | I edged my way along clutching the banking , till a young man in a bright red T-shirt and a small boy with a grey sack , who I had seen skipping up the path earlier , forced me to adopt a more dignified , upright position . |
| 8 | But I have made her promise to teach me to cook a little even though at first she said she would n't think of it . ’ |
| 9 | In part 2 the author has given you the option of turning off those infuriating flashing lasers and electric grills , which I found helped me to think a little easier but , alas , did n't help me in solving the problem . |
| 10 | The only drawbacks are you ca n't be ladylike getting in and out and police tend to follow me to get a better look ! ’ . |
| 11 | So as you do n't ask me to get the so and so 's down . |
| 12 | It was these latter findings , plus the conclusions of the exploratory study given in Part A of this report , that persuaded me to attempt a more wide-ranging review of published literature than one that just focussed on the literature of environmental scanning . |
| 13 | It is an open cluster , easily seen with × 7 ; with × 12 it seems to me to have a slightly elliptical appearance , with indications of resolution into stars . |
| 14 | And for this , I suppose timeless question , Milton does seem to me to offer a particularly interesting answer . |
| 15 | And the more I considered it , the more obvious it became that Miss Kenton , with her great affection for this house , with her exemplary professionalism — the sort almost impossible to find nowadays — was just the factor needed to enable me to complete a fully satisfactory staff plan for Darlington Hall . |
| 16 | The reflection spurred me to take a less over-riding line with him . |
| 17 | I keep the matter under review , as I must , but in the circumstances I am not persuaded that the public interest requires me to take the necessarily large number of actions up and down the country . |
| 18 | ( Allow me to muse a little longer on Decimator . ) |
| 19 | Perry directs me down to Euston Road and forgets to mention the turnoff , causing me to make a rather dangerous and illegal U-turn at King 's Cross . |
| 20 | Although I could not claim to have made a detailed ethnographic study of the school , the many visits enabled me to gain a fairly broad picture of its ‘ ethos ’ . |