Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here .
2 I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away .
3 I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 .
4 ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’
5 no I were gon na do , I got them for the days
6 I caught it in the banisters as I turned the corner , ’ I lied .
7 One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police .
8 I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses .
9 As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew .
10 I told her about the hops .
11 And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time .
12 I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond .
13 I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch .
14 I told him about the frogs and all he could think of was socks ! ’
15 Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ?
16 I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’
17 At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it .
18 I threw mine to the Greyhounds .
19 I threw it on the cobble-stones and Elizabeth cried .
20 I threw you to the crocodiles to save my job . ’
21 I dug it into the roses instead . ’
22 And I was only doing up here but er , that 's good enough , sort of thing I kissed her on the lips a couple
23 I followed him down the stairs , listening to him curse and shout ; in the front hall he tried to get a jacket on over his clothes but could n't get it to fit over his hand holding the gun .
24 MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays .
25 I watched him on the Lions tour and he 's a very good player .
26 I watched him down the stairs from the landing .
27 I watched them through the windows .
28 And then I lost him among the boulders and small trees that marked the course of the torrent .
29 Hooked is the title of the latest collection of reviews by film critic nonpareil Pauline Kael , ninth in the essential series which began with 1965 I Lost It At The Movies .
30 In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet .
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