Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |
| 2 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 3 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 4 | I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 . |
| 5 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I mean it about the enemies . |
| 7 | So I present this pattern I push it through the decoders and I see that that line 's maybe is active so I put a one in there to record the fact that that logic term er occurred . |
| 8 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 9 | yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts |
| 10 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 11 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 12 | I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share . |
| 13 | I associate myself with the expressions of sympathy . |
| 14 | Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse . |
| 15 | ‘ I caught it in the banisters as I turned the corner , ’ I lied . |
| 16 | One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police . |
| 17 | I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses . |
| 18 | Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas . |
| 19 | I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket . |
| 20 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 21 | I told her about the hops . |
| 22 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
| 23 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 24 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 25 | I told him about the frogs and all he could think of was socks ! ’ |
| 26 | Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ? |
| 27 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
| 28 | I learnt something of the joys , frustrations and bitterness of their lives . |
| 29 | Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks . |
| 30 | Or have I missed something in the rules ? |