Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I passed to her the wisdom I picked up eavesdropping on our two eldest sisters , whose lives were then lived in romantic turmoil . |
| 2 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 3 | Last year , I reported to you a deficit of three hundred and thirty thousand . |
| 4 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 5 | You may remember , Mr. Speaker , that last year I raised with you the problem of coaches parked in and around Parliament square , which makes it impossible for the Sessional Order to be complied with . |
| 6 | You will recall that , over a week ago , I raised with you the fact that an hon. Member had clearly used the free post improperly on behalf of Islington , North Labour party . |
| 7 | Once I urged on her a walk which I had taken with children I knew and which had seemed very easy to me . |
| 8 | And he started playing through some of the songs from my club repertoire , answering my enquiring look with , ‘ I worked with you a couple of years back , in East Dean Working Men 's Club . ’ |
| 9 | I forwarded to him an estimate of the probable expence which I calculated at under £4000 with which sum I engaged to organize a party to keep the field for two years . |
| 10 | ‘ I talked to him a couple of hours ago and he said that as soon as things quietened down he 'd get as much down on paper as he could remember . |
| 11 | Bernard Rhodes , for example , was always in the shop and he was always up for a chat I talked to him a lot and we struck up a rapport . |
| 12 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 13 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 14 | I looked at her a lot during that tea . |
| 15 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 16 | I thought about her a lot and decided that the bottle contained poison and she would take it when she felt death coming . |
| 17 | The way Mr. Mendez decided to go all of a sudden did n't make any sense at all until I thought about it a while . |
| 18 | I thought about it a lot . ’ |
| 19 | I thought of you every day , of how we could have been together , and now we may start again . ’ |
| 20 | I went off him a lot when he made out he was really eager to get to Blackburn and ‘ only really wanted to play for one club ’ , but you ca n't really blame him for wanting to be filthy rich . |
| 21 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 22 | On 21 April I sent to you a letter and a copy of a proposal for the above tape , to your address ( as I have written it above ) , but yesterday received this package back marked as not known at this address . |
| 23 | I spoke to him the night before last , and he 's doing fine . |
| 24 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 25 | I outlined to him a scheme for an organisation that would provide the disabled with the cars they required in return for an assignment to that organisation of their mobility allowance . |
| 26 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 27 | Course , this morning yesterday while he was at home , I said to him the bathroom radiator 's just not quite warm enough Pete can you adjust it ? |
| 28 | If I said to you every time you pick up the phone it 's closer to ten pounds , would it get you very excited . |
| 29 | If I said to you the communication right these are the methods that this is what actually communication is . |
| 30 | Fortunately I had with me a book of prose exercises that we had used at school , so , at random I chose one which I vaguely remembered . |