Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 2 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 3 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 4 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 5 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 6 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 7 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 8 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 9 | I asked him after the event what he thought . |
| 10 | I asked her about the letter and she kne she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast . |
| 11 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked her about the make and she said she did n't know . |
| 13 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 14 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 15 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |
| 16 | Terrified that it would try to escape or fly away , and not wanting to risk the Corporal 's anger , I pinned it to the ground by leaning a large stone against it . |
| 17 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 18 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 19 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 20 | ‘ I made them with a ruler , ’ he says . |
| 21 | I made it to the front of the clubhouse just in time to seize Jack 's bag and head for the practice ground . |
| 22 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 23 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 24 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 25 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 26 | Maggie approached Godfrey and said over his shoulder , ‘ I made it by the pound cake method . |
| 27 | I made it from a pattern |
| 28 | I made it in the meat dish |
| 29 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 30 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |