Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I would like to formally second Mr because I followed a situation where the previous minister had baptised anyone and when I arrived I discussed with the session what our policy on baptism was and we concurred that we should follow the nineteen sixty three law but apply it under grace and with the spirit of God in mind and we had some very difficult situations when people said to me no I have no time for God in my life but I want you to baptise my baby . |
| 2 | What little human warmth I required I garnered from the aunts and cousins , who still came to Cliff Top for their annual holiday . |
| 3 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 4 | Although I slipped in the odd prop or two , and tried to bend briefs towards my interests , on the whole I felt I watched from the sidelines as the plethora of ecology and natural history books of the 1980s appeared . |
| 5 | ‘ If I saw me coming into the dressing room I 'd have myself kicked out . ’ |
| 6 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 7 | I know erm I thought I wrote to the electricity board in , I wrote to somebody about erm how er things should be labelled about how efficient they are when using electricity . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 9 | I took I went to the doctor 's and he gave me medicinal duty . |
| 10 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 11 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 12 | the only erm problem I had I think with the basic er terms as outlined in this document are the fact that I 'm going to be wor erm intending to work for fif at least fifty of the fifty two weeks in the year at it when of course erm certainly as we 'd already agreed on my erm business plan within the summer month from the the end of July until the beginning of September |
| 13 | 'E left me roastin' outside the gates while 'e went an' phoned the police , ’ Freddie moaned . |
| 14 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 15 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 16 | ‘ She asked me to inquire about the case . |
| 17 | She asked me to stand by the gate while she spoke to him . " |
| 18 | They 'd put her into a side ward and removed the mirrors and she asked me to peek under the cloth and tell her what she looked like . |
| 19 | I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride , and once she 'd stopped laughing about Simon she told me to head for the pub where I 'd dropped Clara . |
| 20 | ‘ You chose me to deal with the dog because none of you would do it , ’ Anabelle answered . |
| 21 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 22 | ‘ You gave me orders from the poop deck . |
| 23 | I am very grateful for the opportunity that you gave me to speak to the NFU Branch Committee on Thursday last . |
| 24 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 25 | I remember when I started my training I work with this girl and I said where 'd you come from and she said I come from the most boring town in Britain , I says where Grantham ? , she says yeah , I says is it boring , she says yeah huh , it is |
| 26 | And she said I got out the door as quick as I could . |
| 27 | I said read the bloody words then and she said oh I never read the words she said I looks at the pictures . |
| 28 | Erm we went I went into the hall and saw that fire . |
| 29 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 30 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |