Example sentences of "i [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 2 | We paused to watch a hawk hunting above one of the islands which splits the Vltava , and I asked Ladislav about the posters I kept seeing in windows . |
| 3 | Later , over a mug of tea , I asked Mick about the message he had for me . |
| 4 | I asked Joe about the heart attack and the changes that it had brought to his life as he settled down for his six hours ' daily practice at the Manor Leisure Club in Yeadon , near Leeds-Bradford Airport . |
| 5 | I asked László about the corso : ‘ Yes , it did exist here before the war and now , gradually , it is coming back , along the embankment by the international hotels . ’ |
| 6 | I met Morag on the step . |
| 7 | You know an and I met Elvis at the chip shop and that stuff , I mean it 's |
| 8 | Although I met Theresa on the way back from erm school and she said Alec was at the doctors cos not the way back from school , way back from the library . |
| 9 | I 'd been officially blind for five years when I met Pete at the Guide Dog Centre in Wokingham , Berkshire , ’ Andrew Miles explained . |
| 10 | I met Jamie in the lounge bar of the Cauldhame Arms for lunch and we sat playing an electronic game over a TV table . |
| 11 | I met Susan on the stairs . |
| 12 | I met Herman at the FitzGeralds ’ [ the writer Kevin FitzGerald and his wife Janet — the latter had been Herman 's producer on the occasions when he broadcast on Woman 's Hour ] , and he says that there is less of Ivy every time he sees her . |
| 13 | Our son Mark , 24 , is a researcher at Pebble Mill in Birmingham , and I met Neil through the Beeb . |
| 14 | You could get an extension , if you asked permission , on Saturday nights for a special occasion such as a dance , and then I met John at the carnival in Middleton . |
| 15 | As I met Charlotte on the path , |
| 16 | ‘ I met Elaine in the hospital Outpatients . |
| 17 | I passed Morpurgo on the way . |
| 18 | I was out of the flat before she could turn her head and as I passed Springsteen on the stairs , I said : ‘ You 're on your own , kid . ’ |
| 19 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 20 | I got Daine in the chest , over the heart . |
| 21 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Although I 'm champion and it 's been a wonderful year I feel I ca n't truly call myself the title holder until I beat Joey on the roads . ’ |
| 23 | I found Jo in the hall trying to get through the scrum of people to the kitchen . |
| 24 | So I phoned Derek on the car phone and erm he says oh we 'll get some taken elsewhere . |
| 25 | No , I want James in the front today . |
| 26 | I want James in the front today because the buggy is easier to tip up with the lightest one in the front . |
| 27 | I entered Whacker in the book and |
| 28 | This was how I regarded Dana from the start . |
| 29 | ‘ I told Warton about the descent , then the ditching ahead of us , which seemed to be a perfectly controlled set-down ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I told Wickham on the telephone , ’ he said . |