Example sentences of "i [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come on in and help me make sense of this life I live . ’ |
| 2 | Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised . |
| 3 | ‘ I joined 25 years ago and I became chairman in 1981 for five years , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Despite this , it was Alison Kraemer I made love to that night and every night thereafter . |
| 5 | I made toast from left-over bits of baguette and always kept a kettle on the hob . |
| 6 | This herb has tiny leaves here , and is furiously strong : I made tea from some herbs I picked , put in a generous sprig of peppermint , and spat out the result in shock . |
| 7 | At the time that I was contending for the ordination of women to the priesthood of the Anglican Church , I made use of another argument , drawing out the implications of patristic thought . |
| 8 | They go because they need to cover some sort of guilt , I 'm convinced of that now , the more people that I know I mean fib of all people fib is now turned to religion . |
| 9 | Yes I mean issue with illegitimate children or his affair means that I mean even the line he was running is okay because I 'm rich so it 's not gon na and it 's not gon na and so he 's got these two sort of values , that if you are a single parent and you 're poor that makes you lesser and more immoral than if you were a single parent and you 're rich . |
| 10 | I mean time of physiological difference and strength needs of their strength that they could just about fire a and he could n't even pull them back and so they you know , fine if you wan na go hunting use the boat |
| 11 | And I mean Unix in those d in the early days was P D P Eleven based . |
| 12 | That 's right , I mean protectionism in agricultural goods has risen , particularly since er , in the last fifty years . |
| 13 | Then he put his arm round her and his wife wo n't curtsy , she 's Dutch , the Dutch are just as bad as anybody now , just lately , I mean lot of these terrorists get in through Holland do n't they ? |
| 14 | I eat quarter to eight |
| 15 | ‘ I bring expertise on general financial and technical matters . ’ |
| 16 | You know if I if I do n't if I 've offended Mr in any way then that is one thing but I do put on bottoms on seats and I bring money into this building . |
| 17 | ‘ The reason why I lay stress on this matter is this : the basis of the respondents ' argument was that there was a single ‘ act , neglect or default , ’ videlicet , the supply of the defective machine , from which the three years ' limitation is directed by the Act to run . |
| 18 | Tanks and guns bombarding one 's inside seemed totally out of place , so I sought inspiration in earlier times , in the knowledge that what was once just as hideous has , over the years been softened by children 's books , Morte d'Arthur and the legends of chivalry . |
| 19 | Mrs. X mentioned in her letter that she was giving thought to taking civil legal action , so I sought advice on private prosecutions from both the Attorney-General , for such actions in England , and the Lord Advocate , for similar cases in Scotland . |
| 20 | Thanks very much indeed colleagues , and can I congratulate Congress for that particular debate . |
| 21 | I got spike on one of my boots . |
| 22 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |
| 23 | But I got hold of All Quiet on the Western Front from my brother 's bookshelves . |
| 24 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 25 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 26 | I got bail for that 'cos of the kids , like . |
| 27 | At the moment I got access to two cars . |
| 28 | I got ninepence for that . |
| 29 | ‘ If I smell hairspray to this day — a certain brand — it sends me right back . |
| 30 | ’ Aye , man , but it 's been a while since I tasted whisky like this . ’ |