Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 2 | His approach to clients was summed up in a remark I overheard him make to a colleague at the bar : ‘ You know me — I believe everybody ’ . |
| 3 | but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay |
| 4 | I mean we have on a couple of occasions always done like fortieths and that , on a couple of them . |
| 5 | I mean it sounds like a sort of — ’ |
| 6 | but I mean I went to a church school |
| 7 | I mean I went to a boarding school before I came here that was just like that but , but it was more like , I do n't know , the guys there , I had more friends that were boys than friends with the girls , yeah |
| 8 | Joined as an M C. Erm , effectively I I mean I work in a Direct Marketing Department , all the junk mail for the un uneducated . |
| 9 | so I , I mean I suppose in a sense it would be good if you did actually change something but that 's not entirely necessary for me . |
| 10 | I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one . |
| 11 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |
| 12 | I mean he looked like an eighteen year old . |
| 13 | Cos erm I mean she went to a report evening and Miss said , was saying about Jay and saying you know if he falls behind you know what 'll happen and Ange says what ? |
| 14 | I fear we walk upon a glass world . |
| 15 | And I make him work like a dog ! |
| 16 | I make you work like a dog . |
| 17 | We did the Christmassy stuff and the old New Orleans favourites and , with Trippy playing the top of the truck cab with a pair of spare drum sticks , I got them organized into a version of Masekela 's Do n't Go Lose It which lasted one and a half circuits . |
| 18 | I got him to sit as a model . |
| 19 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I expect he went for a walk after . |
| 21 | I found them built into a cottage . |
| 22 | ‘ I found them wrapped in a brown-paper parcel with ‘ Dirty Books ’ scrawled on the outside with a purple pencil . ’ |
| 23 | After a brief search , I found it tucked into a corner , guarded by the pikes and pennants of the Twenty-First Lancers . |
| 24 | I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me . |
| 25 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 26 | I found it preoccupied by a little company of artists , either professional or amateur , who made use of the rainy day by camping in the coach-house to sketch from its shelter a fine group of trees , with some good foreground rock and bracken , all within a stone-throw of the cottage . |
| 27 | I say he looks like a cat . |
| 28 | I suggest we work at a readjustment of your ideas . |
| 29 | I want us to think for a moment about the rights and needs of all those millions of children who do not go to school , who are invisible because very often development programmes tend to ignore er their needs . |
| 30 | Erm , I want us to get to a stage by the time you leave tomorrow afternoon , where we actually have and you have agreed a plan for your team . |