Example sentences of "[vb past] i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ginny lent me The King Must Die . |
| 2 | She lent me the money to get my second bike — that Triumph Speed Twin : it had a lot of poke for the size . |
| 3 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 4 | I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’ |
| 5 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 6 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 7 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 8 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 9 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 10 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 11 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 12 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 13 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 14 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 15 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 16 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 17 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 18 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 19 | That 's what got me the two years inside , pal . |
| 20 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 21 | Rounds of 67 , 69 , 66 and 65 made me the winner of the Lancome Trophy and a very happy man . |
| 22 | Main made me the most incredible clothes . |
| 23 | Which made me the family oddity . ’ |
| 24 | The ‘ Dragon-in-charge ’ sold me the requisite shoes , leotard and headband , finally producing a crossover cardigan in a scratchy wool , of a dirty mustard colour . |
| 25 | He sold me the caravan . |
| 26 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 27 | As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic . |
| 28 | ‘ The first time Jimmy Patino , who represented family interests on the board , came to a meeting , he read me the riot act about how of every £1 I was talking about , 51p was owned by the family , and of that 51p , 25p of it was his . |
| 29 | Go on , Emma snatch that and read me the Gilbert and Sullivan clue . |
| 30 | He passed me the receiver , saying unnecessarily , ‘ It 's Ronnie Curzon . ’ |