Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 2 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 3 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 4 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 6 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 7 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 8 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 9 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 10 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 11 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 12 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 13 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 14 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 15 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 16 | In an effort to find an ally in helping her , I mentioned her to the local priest . |
| 17 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 18 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 19 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 20 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 21 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 22 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 23 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 25 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 26 | I told 'em about the listening post , so I do n't want it compromised , okay ? ’ |
| 27 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 28 | I compared him to the other gentlemen present . |
| 29 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 30 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |