Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 32 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 33 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 34 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 35 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 36 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 37 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 38 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 39 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 40 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 41 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 42 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 43 | I told 'em about the listening post , so I do n't want it compromised , okay ? ’ |
| 44 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 45 | I compared him to the other gentlemen present . |
| 46 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 47 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 48 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 49 | I observed them with the silent attention a tiger must give its approaching prey . |
| 50 | I hawked it around the great Guardian brains , chaps with double firsts from Oxbridge , and none could help . |
| 51 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 52 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 53 | I followed her to the Georgian wing where the rooms were more human size . |
| 54 | I followed him to the cold lands of the north , and bought dogs and a sledge . |
| 55 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 56 | I followed him out the back door . |
| 57 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 58 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 59 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 60 | The tragedy unfolds through wonderful music — from the tentative If I Loved You to the final tear-jerker You 'll Never Walk Alone . |