Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 2 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 3 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 4 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he complained , ‘ what would be your reaction if I told you the moon just fell out of the sky ? ’ |
| 6 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You would n't come out here if I sent you the money for the air ticket , would you ? ’ |
| 8 | Well I suppose I 'm sure Adrian wo n't mind if I paid him the day after or a week after or something . |
| 9 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 10 | All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’ |
| 11 | He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital . |
| 12 | What would you do if I gave you the jade ? |
| 13 | So the gradient gives you a mea If I gave you the gradient , if I said the gradient is one , what would the angle be ? |
| 14 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 15 | It wo n't obstruct no light though because I told you the sun is more er , without the back it joins down the car |
| 16 | The vehicle was originally a petrol but before I bought it the engine was replaced with a Gold Seal factory rebuilt diesel unit . |
| 17 | I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’ |
| 18 | When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again . |
| 19 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 20 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 21 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 22 | Yeah , but when I took her the toilet she wanted to go toilet |
| 23 | But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’ |
| 24 | If my deception worked , she 'd still think she was attached to the creance and fly straight to me as usual when I showed her the chick . |
| 25 | The reason I called James Hunt ‘ Master James ’ , a sobriquet which his sponsors , Texaco , took up and plastered ( without payment ! ) on billboards all over the country , was that he appeared to be exactly that , -a rather well-brought-up young man , properly educated , well-mannered ( when I gave him the name , though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations ! ) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved . |
| 26 | But as I handed him the money the room grew quiet again . |
| 27 | I had no idea why Hughie McNab wanted to change my face , for I liked it the way it was . |