Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 2 | Well , perhaps I asked for it in a way , ’ Felicity admitted reluctantly . |
| 3 | Then I asked of him concerning the suffering . |
| 4 | I grin at myself in the mirror . |
| 5 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 6 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
| 7 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 8 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 9 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
| 10 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 11 | Could I stay with you for a few days and learn how you manage without magic ? " |
| 12 | You were on a raised platform and I passed before you in the parade . " |
| 13 | I rode with them in the cab ( we tossed the oneliners back and forth ) — to our destination . |
| 14 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 15 | Anyway treating it with the respect that any fish of unknown toothy potential deserves I knelt across it like a pike and proceeded to unhook it with Rick 's help . |
| 16 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 17 | I don I should also say that following a very recent decision er in our submission that 's probably right , that my Lord as I say , I say to you with no joy , this really is desperate and er one can not have , in our submission , in the minds of the jury by inadmissible evidence , the suggestion that yes we have been harbouring this man two days before . |
| 18 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
| 19 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 20 | ‘ You are a good officer , Merymose , ’ he said at last , ‘ and although I disagree with you about the capability of our Medjays , I respect your judgment . |
| 21 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 22 | About quangos whatsoever , I want to something about the boundaries of the European parliament . |
| 23 | I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long . |
| 24 | Yes , I have n't brought the modular things I mentioned to you on the phone the other day but I think it would be very useful to sit down and look at structuring that |
| 25 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr Pinkhammer , ’ he said , ‘ can I speak with you for a minute ? |
| 27 | May I speak to you for a moment ? ’ he asked in a lower tone . |
| 28 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 29 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 30 | I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard . |