Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Among the few books I took with me into the Desert was The Oxford Book of Modern Verse which you gave me . |
| 2 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 3 | I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to . |
| 4 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 5 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 6 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
| 7 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 8 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 9 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |
| 10 | And I still remember what you did to me in the car . |
| 11 | I can still remember what you did to me in the car . |
| 12 | What she said to me on the subject of the race riots and how she felt in that context makes me think that this stage in her life was nothing to do with race . |
| 13 | she , she said to me on the way o , er as I was I said look I 'm going to scoot now and she said well I hope you do n't get any unwanted company on the way back . |
| 14 | I know , well no she does know , she said to me in the car once you think I do n't know anything but |
| 15 | Two you had off me for the fete . |
| 16 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 17 | But as you said to me in the lodge , he will be reborn after his death as a warrior . |
| 18 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 19 | Only two of them fell over me in the sleeping-bag . |
| 20 | ‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible . |
| 21 | I called the dogs and they crowded behind me into the morning room , clip-clipping to their place with the chewed blanket and the bones . |
| 22 | If any of your readers has any interesting photographs or stories , I would be glad if they wrote to me at the address below . |
| 23 | " Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge . |
| 24 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 25 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 26 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 27 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 28 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 29 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 30 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |