Example sentences of "[vb past] i one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 2 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 3 | With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up . |
| 4 | Marie read me one of her poems the other day . |
| 5 | My chance came some weeks later , when he visited me one November evening in my little cottage . |
| 6 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 7 | He found me one day , crying my heart out , and because he was the sort of man he was — kind , sympathetic — I told him . |
| 8 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 9 | Played me one day and it played Annabel one day . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 11 | A fellow fanzine writer , Steve Shy from ‘ Shy Talk ’ ( such were the ridiculous pseudonyms of the era ) told me one typical Sunday … |
| 12 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 13 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 14 | But he told me one of my stories was a masterpiece , and that one of my poems would move a stone . |
| 15 | He telephoned me one evening to tell me that the Labour Party had decided to use an extract from it in their manifesto . |
| 16 | He showed me one day what he called his killing-bottle . |
| 17 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |
| 18 | He rang me one day and asked if he could bring something down . |
| 19 | My middle daughter , Lal , sweetly and most touchingly offered me one of her kidneys , an offer I declined as decorously as I could . |
| 20 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 21 | Werewolf placed one of the paint pistols in my belt holster , then offered me one of the pennants . |
| 22 | A friend took me one summer on a tour of the Andean provinces . |
| 23 | My pal Pinkie Blenkinsop took me one night to ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |
| 24 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 25 | My son gave me one of them years ago . |
| 26 | ‘ If you gave me one square inch of surface , ’ he said , ‘ I could store all the data on all the computer discs produced by IBM last year . |
| 27 | Are n't you ? — and he gave me one of his dry little smiles . |
| 28 | And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 29 | Mark gave me one of Sophie 's doorstops — a sleeping fox , and we went down to visit a friend in the Borders with Ethel for support . |
| 30 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |