Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 32 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 33 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 34 | ‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see . |
| 35 | I provide you with a one inch to the mile map , and a box of matches each one inch long . |
| 36 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
| 37 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 38 | I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure . |
| 39 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |
| 40 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 41 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
| 42 | I picture it as a large , grey , multi-headed dragon . |
| 43 | I cut mine with a special retractable knife , but do be careful how you cut , so that the knife does not slip towards you and you land up in the Accident Department . |
| 44 | I 've got them on in one room , er I put them on a little bit |
| 45 | ‘ I would n't kick out anyone who did n't perform , but when they came back I would make sure I put them in a safe place , ’ he says . |
| 46 | I agree with what you 're saying but when I 've done it before and involved the pupil in such a report I put it on a separate sheet , so that |
| 47 | I put it with a fine one-ply in cream and the difference is amazing . |
| 48 | I receive it with a grateful heart and let the light enter into me , until I am light . |
| 49 | I soaked it in a hot bath last night ; it should be okay now . ’ |
| 50 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 51 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
| 52 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 53 | There are even times when I enjoy it in a masochistic kind of way — those are the times when you are really running free , bouncing along in a relaxed and easy manner , with the mind and the body in tune . |
| 54 | Indeed , it was at this time that , ironically , I turned myself into a genuine adept of the Magus of the Quotidian . |
| 55 | ‘ I screwed her in a hot-air balloon . |
| 56 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 57 | Unless I hear something from a Labour spokesman to suggest they have reasonable plans for single householders , I think many people will be deserting and voting Conservative . |
| 58 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 59 | I know you for a pure creature . |
| 60 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |