Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucker tells me I slept with a smile on my face . |
| 2 | From what he told me I know for a fact the IRA did n't use Mick during their bombing campaign in England at the beginning of the war . ’ |
| 3 | Already on the day following Neddy 's pronouncement the industrial correspondent of The Times , whom I take as a representative of respectable opinion , was ecstatic with metaphors . |
| 4 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
| 5 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 6 | It 's a little lad and I I looked through a window , I could see Judith holding this baby but you had to walk round to get to her and I knew before you 'd got there and you were all over the moon about this little baby and everything |
| 7 | Well yeah I I got in a lavender bush when I was small so |
| 8 | I I remember as a kid hearing of all this er how the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage , the ship within a ship . |
| 9 | I er ended up I I coasted round a corner which is something you should n't do |
| 10 | I I I I went to a place first and er I and I I went home you know , without them knowing . |
| 11 | I I live in a village as well and I mean they , I 've got the same |
| 12 | So stealing being a quick resort , you 'd I 'd f I I know for a fact I 'd find myself turning to it firstly and not lastly . |
| 13 | Someone I met at a party ! |
| 14 | Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man . |
| 15 | I have three upright basses , and I take two on the road with me , plus an old ‘ 64 Precision which I use on a couple of numbers . ’ |
| 16 | The theory which I commend as a guide to the fruitful development of international law in the control of force may be called ‘ ethical ’ or perhaps ‘ functional positivism ’ . |
| 17 | I shall certainly answer the question , because we have a policy to which I alluded as a result of an interruption made by the Government Whip . |
| 18 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 19 | This does not extend to feeding a patient against his will , which I regard as a form of aggressive treatment . |
| 20 | The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window . |
| 21 | The next Christmas I received a present of a metal unbreakable flask from my friends , which I cherish as a reminder not to be a grumpy bag up hills . |
| 22 | Multiplied by three point five which I brought to a figure of a hundred and twenty six thousand five hundred and twenty seven pounds and fifty six pence . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , in a " matched guise " test which I administered to a class of fourteen to fifteen year-old adolescents in the speaker 's own home area , seven out of eleven black pupils judged her to be black on the basis of an extract from the story above ( see Chapter 4 for a discussion ) . |
| 24 | Around that time I wrote a piece in a journal which I co-wrote with a friend . |
| 25 | I filled four pages which I sent with a footnote requesting that they send me some books . |
| 26 | Being a man myself , the similarity by which I recognize as a man must be not only to others previously classified as men but to myself ; I assume , and when close enough to read expression and gesture simulate , thought and emotion like mine , turning his observed behaviour inside out . |
| 27 | I give myself a pat on the back for every question which I answered in a way which led the pupils deeper into the problem . |
| 28 | All I ate that day was a piece of bread , which I begged from a farmer eating his supper . |
| 29 | Yet to give instant opinions on the long term impact of the many educational reports , speeches , Parliamentary debates , learned researches , books , ideas and happenings which marked the years through which I worked as a teacher was quite impossible . |
| 30 | Remember the acquisition problem infants acquire language on the basis of minimal evidence , that 's called a poverty of stimulus problem , which I talked about a bit in lecture one or two . |