Example sentences of "i [verb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me make a very quick phone call and come back to you . ’ |
| 2 | Here let me make an aside . |
| 3 | It was a pleasure to me to see the housewifely way in which Mr Wilson set about everything . |
| 4 | So before you turn to your itinerary , let me explain a little further . |
| 5 | ‘ I only moved from Middlesbrough because I became a little stale . |
| 6 | I became a very good eyeballer , and I could read any line on any green . |
| 7 | I became a gloomily devoted mother . |
| 8 | That I became a more understanding teacher was very much due to Basil and the tradition which he had established . |
| 9 | To keep my distance from everybody , always being a polite child , I became an unusually polite teenager . |
| 10 | Can I make a little ? |
| 11 | ’ Could I make a very special request ? ’ asks Kiefer Sutherland in a fragile , full-of-flu drawl . |
| 12 | Bob , is a local person , in fact he lives in the village of Girton here , and to , to , to my knowledge takes a keen interest in local news and in local local affairs , since he 's been editor of the Evening News I , I , I perceive a more lively style creeping into the paper . |
| 13 | Others have drawn attention to the weak political culture : ‘ I perceive the most significant structural defect of our democracy in the lethargy and apathy which are increasingly to be found within our parties and other groups … |
| 14 | I sell a very popular Canadian mustard called Honeycup , which is actually sweetened with sugar and is delicious with any cold meats , but especially with smoked turkey . |
| 15 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 16 | I decided to get a bit of height and do a gentle dive with power off and I made a rather ham-fisted upward climb in the hope that I could jolt the wheel down . |
| 17 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 18 | I made a very careful search in the area where this find was made but the site yielded no more gold coins . |
| 19 | So one time I made a very sad mistake , Somebody pushed the bell , and I opened it and I said , I 'll have two bitters . |
| 20 | In November I made a much delayed return to the Swanage area after a ten year absence . |
| 21 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 22 | … I mean a completely different development arising from computer logic but as unimaginable to us now as a Shakespearean character would have been to an oral-epic culture , and a different way of thinking about and rendering … all worldly phenomena , as revolutionary as the scientific spirit that slowly emerged out of the Renaissance and the Gutenberg galaxy . |
| 23 | No certainly not it 's not I mean a little old lady yes the lace has something to do with Nottingham Nottingham 's heritage we all know that . |
| 24 | I mean the most exciting moment of all is when you are actually chosen for a part — after that initial excitement it 's a bit downhill — not because the work is n't marvellous but because the first challenge is the peak . |
| 25 | Coming out of the Musée Basque , and as you turn right to recross the Nive by the Pont Marengo , you can see facing you , a little upstream , a short sequence of the best , by which I mean the most distinctive , houses in Bayonne , narrow , half-timbered , six storeys high and standing none too straight . |
| 26 | Well I mean the normally it would kill the grass , but it wo n't matter this year . |
| 27 | Well I mean the sooner that 's . |
| 28 | The worst of it is , the Wild Wood is alive with the most hideous of micro-monsters ; by which I mean the so called Cathedral Bug — though ‘ bug ’ is too cosy a name for that black abortion — Satan 's Crab suits it better . |
| 29 | I mean the very small number of girls that did get to university at the turn of the century had to endure the most extraordinary trials and hardships . |
| 30 | I mean the only er , look , make look flimsy do n't they ? |