Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
| 2 | As I do not , as a rule , take alcohol , the one glass of sherry I had with lunch enabled me to enjoy myself with the other guests . |
| 3 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 4 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 5 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 6 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 7 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 8 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
| 9 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 10 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 12 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 13 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 14 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 15 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 16 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
| 17 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 18 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 19 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 20 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 21 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
| 22 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 23 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 24 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 25 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 26 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 27 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
| 28 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
| 29 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 30 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |