Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 2 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 3 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
| 4 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 5 | A man I 'd met only twice , a bit of a loner , invited me to go with him to the West Indies . |
| 6 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 7 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following : |
| 8 | Peter called to him : ‘ Lord if it is you , tell me to come to you over the water . ’ |
| 9 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 10 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 11 | Then I asked of him concerning the suffering . |
| 12 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 13 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 14 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
| 15 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 16 | You were on a raised platform and I passed before you in the parade . " |
| 17 | I rode with them in the cab ( we tossed the oneliners back and forth ) — to our destination . |
| 18 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 19 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 20 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 21 | ‘ You are a good officer , Merymose , ’ he said at last , ‘ and although I disagree with you about the capability of our Medjays , I respect your judgment . |
| 22 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 23 | I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long . |
| 24 | Yes , I have n't brought the modular things I mentioned to you on the phone the other day but I think it would be very useful to sit down and look at structuring that |
| 25 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 26 | I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard . |
| 27 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 28 | I 'm sure I 've I said to you on the phone I think . |
| 29 | I speak to her on the phone almost every day and she 's really important to me . ’ |
| 30 | I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems . |