Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him first in the Lubyanka , that brick lump on Manchester 's Oxford Road that serves as home to the BMC . |
| 2 | ‘ Every time I got them involved with the story , ’ Hopper explained , ‘ I 'd come back at them and say , ‘ Ha , ha , it 's only a movie … ’ ’ |
| 3 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 4 | I got you some in the thing . |
| 5 | I got it cheap at the Co-op at Lyme . |
| 6 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 7 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 8 | That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know |
| 9 | I think I told you this by the way , this I want to describe to you now is the same for all of them . |
| 10 | Rommel arrived at Alamein , the Russians drove the Germans out of Russia , English and American troops landed on the continent , whole German cities were razed to the ground in one night : I heard it all from the same patch of sand , four hundred yards long by a hundred wide in the middle of a Silesian Pine forest . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt it all in the car and I enjoyed it . |
| 12 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 13 | I thought it odd at the time that he should feel so at home there . ’ |
| 14 | I thought it plucky of the Labour party to sing Jerusalem at one of Mr Kinnock 's beanos last week . |
| 15 | Equally unsatisfactory is the decision that Harold Newstead , a bachelor hairdresser living in Camberwell , was libelled by a perfectly accurate court report that another Harold Newstead , also a Camberwell resident , had been gaoled for bigamy ( " I kept them both till the police interfered " ) . |
| 16 | And I gave him one of the street scenes . |
| 17 | I gave you three for the bird box , you got ta deliver me a bird box |
| 18 | I reminded them both of the force of ancient ceremony , the ley-lines of hymeneal fortune , the gilded corrugations of the sacred text . |
| 19 | I left it all with the guy . " |
| 20 | I left you twenty out the erm joint account and that 's all really and |
| 21 | But I think I resented them both for the same reason , that is , that something was happening to me , or rather to my body , which was completely outside of my own control . |