Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 2 | Er that 's true , as I said I , I lied a little bit , I , I failed to tell you the cost of the fee . |
| 3 | I got to give you the cello . |
| 4 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 5 | Last week in my talk I tried to give you an introduction to the subject we call art . |
| 6 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 7 | I stopped to find her a name . |
| 8 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 9 | ‘ If only I 'd met you a year ago . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But I 'd sent you a cheque to cover my share of the quarter . ’ |
| 11 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 12 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 13 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 14 | Cos I 'd got her a tube of toothpaste . |
| 15 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 16 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 17 | By the time I 'd had her a fortnight , and she was about five weeks old , her trust in me was growing . |
| 18 | I forgot to get him a card to go out again for a card . |
| 19 | It happened during the final couple of years of my marriage when , tired of the humiliation my husband 's affairs imposed on me , I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine . |
| 20 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
| 21 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 22 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 23 | So much , that I decided to draw you a piccy of your swish logo on our school 's Nimbus printer . |
| 24 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 25 | I decided to pay them a visit . |
| 26 | So when Lewis turned up I decided to show him the money straight away . |
| 27 | I decided to hand him a quarter |
| 28 | I offered to give him a game or two if he needed the practice but , as he soon told me , snooker training is a lot more complicated than that nowadays . |
| 29 | I went to see her a couple of times , but there was no progress . |
| 30 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |