Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Do I make it sound like a paradise , a utopia , a socialist state such as would delight Shelley 's and your father 's hearts ? |
| 2 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I asked him not to . ’ |
| 4 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 5 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 6 | I asked her once about the packet . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked you not to . ’ |
| 8 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 9 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
| 10 | I lowered myself down off the fence . |
| 11 | Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue . |
| 12 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
| 13 | If I change it once in one place only then automatically every program on the network is using the new version of the business rule . |
| 14 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 15 | I flung myself out of bed and into her arms . |
| 16 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 17 | I hope that I shall not embarrass the Minister if I commend him again for his imaginative efforts and the time that he has spent abroad trying to develop inward investment . |
| 18 | Yes , I have I posted it off during the week to My Weekly , because I thought because the it was about a girl in all trouble , I think it |
| 19 | I chucked it out in the end . |
| 20 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
| 21 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 22 | I made nothing out of it . |
| 23 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
| 24 | I made one yesterday in a meat tin and so Lynn had a lump and I got a lump and you here . |
| 25 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
| 26 | I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula . |
| 27 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 28 | Bob and I made it out of hardboard and Formica … |
| 29 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
| 30 | Mr Alms , who described himself as retired but who runs Investment Chartwork , a firm of ‘ economic forecasters ’ , said : ‘ I suppose you could say I made it out of warped sense of humour . |