Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived with her for four years . |
| 2 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 3 | And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money . |
| 4 | I thought of her in 1955 when I was in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau and saw hungry children huddled in corners of African huts . |
| 5 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 6 | I went to her in 1844 , before ever Mr Browning appeared on the scene . ’ |
| 7 | It was this burning ambition that I took with me into 1986 . |
| 8 | Back home , I wrote to him on 4 July , enclosing a shortish essay which the comparative leisure afforded by leaving Oxford had made possible . |
| 9 | On 10 June I received a letter from Mr. , which made reference to the site meeting I held with you on 4 June , and then said , and I quote , ‘ the volunteers will carry out the resurfacing works on the Canal towing path … ’ ; ‘ after the works are completed … ’ ; ‘ the upgrading works carried out by your organisation will be to the benefit of all canal users ’ . |
| 10 | I stayed with it for three months , then left because it was n't what I wanted to spend my life doing . |