Example sentences of "i [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
| 3 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 5 | I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms . |
| 6 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 7 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 8 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
| 9 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 10 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 11 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 13 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 14 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 15 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 16 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 17 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 18 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 19 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 20 | Do n't get me wrong — I 've nothing against the leather-clad hordes , for they are a cheerful fraternity . |
| 21 | " I 've nothing against the poor nips , " he said crossly ; " only , not now , we ca n't afford them now . " |
| 22 | I have nothing but the highest admiration for the quality and devotion of the work they have put into the care of the plaintiff over the last six and a half years . |
| 23 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 24 | I have none in the whole world to call my own . |
| 25 | Erm I see nothing in the current Bradford U D P which suggests that they are n't erm majoring on urban regeneration , that they 're doing they 're doing exactly that . |
| 26 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |