Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Andy , my anaesthesiologist , gave me a smile and a pre-med jab and left me to float in a warm sea-green calm which was interrupted by the slap of rubber swing-doors and a breathless , ‘ Hi , my name 's Nudleman . |
| 2 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 3 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 4 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 5 | I have heard from Prudential Property Services with details of your proposed purchase of the above property for £52,000 subject to Contract and I expect that I shall be receiving the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors in the course of the next post but perhaps you will kindly telephone me and let me know whether you wish me to proceed with the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and the Local search with the East Herts District Council . |
| 6 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 7 | Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned . |
| 8 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 9 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 10 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 11 | The Prince wants me to go to a bloody ball . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They want me to go to a mental hospital , Mum . ’ |
| 13 | And she would like me to go to the well women 's clinic every Wednesday it 's run . |
| 14 | He ca n't help it : Do you want me to go into the other room ? |
| 15 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a psychological tonic which helped me to cope with a silent Parliament . |
| 17 | I do n't think he was quite so committed to your sister as she wanted us to believe , and , talking of that lady , how dare you leave me to cope with an hysterical female on my own ? ’ |
| 18 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 19 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 20 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , in the absence of all the facts , it is not possible for me to comment on the individual case , nor would I wish to do so in a public forum . |
| 22 | We are currently in discussion with the TECs about their budget and I do not think that it would be appropriate for me to comment on the particular circumstances of my hon. Friend 's local TEC . |
| 23 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 24 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 25 | Do you want me to come on the nineteenth as well ? |
| 26 | The heading ‘ Letterman productions , Hollywood , London , paris ’ , with a movie camera logo , seems to me to come from a comic book , but it obviously reminds Mr Shah of his brief association with Ava Gardner , Clark Gable and John Ford . |
| 27 | The odd day here and there is not important , but if you could let me know within the next couple of weeks or so when you intend to take a major part of your holiday away — if you know — I do n't myself know erm yet — but if you do know then I can have a look at the overall picture and see that we 're not all dispersed . |
| 28 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 29 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 30 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |