Example sentences of "[indef pn] i [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To everyone I know under the age of 35 , it is prehistory . |
| 2 | I recognised one of the Commandos as someone I knew before the war . |
| 3 | Still less can I will the death of someone I love on the calculation that the bereavement will be a rewarding experience . |
| 4 | Yeah somebody I I ca n't remember who it was , I heard somebody I think on the radio or television talking about the , you know it was the beginning of January and they 've already put er hot cross buns in the supermarkets . |
| 5 | I may not have understood everything I heard at the time , but later it all slotted into place . |
| 6 | How can I go back now , knowing that everything I believed about the Store and Arnold Bros and Grandson Richard is just … is just an opinion ? ’ |
| 7 | I would be putting everything I needed into the horse box until about ten o'clock and at about half past ten my horse and it 's tack would be in there as well and I would be on my way with my day to an eleven thirty meet at a pub nearby . |
| 8 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 9 | ‘ I buy everything I wear during the day from Marks & Spencer . |
| 10 | It 's , I , recur here to something I said in the broadcast I did earlier in this series , that a British national characteristic which distinguishes us very much from every Continental country , is our erm phobia about committing money and means to the state to spend for our common good . |
| 11 | Nush Nush sounds like something I mutter to the conductor of the night bus on a Sunday morning … but anyway … |
| 12 | The New English Weekly article was a follow-up to one I wrote about the abdication crisis . |
| 13 | And usually the one I massage at the end is way out asleep you know . |
| 14 | The only clue ( and one I ignored at the time ) , was Selkirk 's interest in the Abbey of St Denis to the north of the city . |
| 15 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 16 | Erm that 's when it 's minus nought point one four , or plus nought point one I went through the minus point first . |
| 17 | If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son . |
| 18 | The one I chose from the list also belongs to a private insurance scheme . |
| 19 | The one I wear in the canteen . |
| 20 | ‘ But before I go I 'll have a look at the one I found in the asylum and the one Theodora got from Paul 's church . ’ |
| 21 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 22 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 23 | Sliver producer Robert Evans said : ‘ Sharon was the only one I wanted for the role . |
| 24 | Erm so Paul says come on , we 'll have a look in the Co-op and here they had the very same one I wanted in the Co-op and it was ten pound cheaper . |
| 25 | Paley begins Natural Theology with a famous passage : In crossing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer . |
| 26 | I think anything I do in the future is going to be purely from home consumption or from places |
| 27 | Also Whittaker , the English master , must have suffered with my transposition of a simple sentence in basic english , but nevertheless seemed to enthuse over anything I did in the manner of an essay . |