Example sentences of "i [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me answer the second question first . |
| 2 | It certainly makes me regard the next car commercial with a new pair of eyes . |
| 3 | And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry . |
| 4 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 5 | ONCE again baseless charges of lewdness and indecency in this column make it impossible for me to report the following headline in the newsletter of Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries : ‘ What 's Five Inches Long — and Worth £200 ? ’ |
| 6 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 7 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 8 | do you see what I mean , right , sit and re-question close , right you can close them on ee do you want to include the extra window for two hundred pound , you follow me you 've hit them with a price you want to close them , right and you sit and do the paperwork and you just say to them do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds because you 've already said to them you , you give an extra , do you follow me ? |
| 9 | right with an extra window , whatever about the money , like Mrs what 's her name , so you 've nearly closed her on the conservatory you do all the paper , your order close form on the conservatory and you say to her , right , cos you 're working your sums out , do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds ? |
| 10 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 11 | Thank you very much for inviting me to attend the forthcoming AGM in Aberystwyth . |
| 12 | ‘ Chris , great to see you , and let me introduce the lovely Lindy . |
| 13 | Let me enjoy the sweet Suspence of Woe , |
| 14 | This inspired me to write the dreadful Verena for her . |
| 15 | The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand . |
| 16 | It is always a lie and never the truth , ’ Questionable though that judgement may be on the aphorism in general , it does seem to me to catch the half-formed nature of this observation — or perhaps , better speaking , its lack of a frame . |
| 17 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
| 18 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 19 | When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set . |
| 20 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 21 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 22 | Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks . |
| 23 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
| 24 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 25 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 26 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 27 | As a Scottish lawyer , may I make the simple point that the Lord Advocate looked carefully at the question of a prosecution for culpable homicide ? |
| 28 | Shall I make the little thingumajig up for you ? |
| 29 | Can I make the same point as well please ? |
| 30 | May I make the further suggestion that when it is all over on 9 April we get the right hon. Gentleman a new job — a walk-on part in a re-run of ’ Crossroads ’ or as a substitute for Ken Barlow . |