Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 2 | The card told me the rest . |
| 3 | Then the cheeky four-year-old showed off by singing her favourite song — the drinker 's ditty Show Me The Way To Go Home . |
| 4 | The report , for the local authorities reports mentioned in the committee item is an attempt to give me the subject of car boot sales a fairly wide airing . |
| 5 | The Brazilian agent saw me the next morning . |
| 6 | Her entry gave me the chance to ignore Ernest and present her with Victor 's note myself , which I did . |
| 7 | D.C.L. degree by Oxford University and the College gave me the honour of welcoming her with flowers ’ . |
| 8 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 9 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 10 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 11 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 12 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , Aunt , Leith has this afternoon done me the honour of agreeing to be my wife . ’ |
| 14 | The warden 's wife at the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve told me the no doubt apocryphal tale of a traveller in Northern Canada laboriously taking down phonetic notes from an Inuit pointing to various landmarks in his territory . |
| 15 | His work affects me the same way — which is why I bought that painting a few years ago . |
| 16 | Lancashire County Council tell me the skip will be provided from Tuesday 30th March to Tuesday 6th April . |
| 17 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 18 | ‘ As a newcomer to AEA the Strategic Options Exercise gave me the chance to focus on some fundamental issues about the way we manage our activities , ’ he told AEA Times . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't usually let a bloke kiss me the first time , ’ she said . |
| 20 | The thought of the delicious lunch gave me the extra boost I needed to reach the summit . |
| 21 | Section ten of the Fire Precautions Act gives me the power to inspect any premises where we believe there is a threat to life , other than domestic premises . |
| 22 | A man whose late father was a subscriber sent me the Electrophone programme for the month of May 1924 . |
| 23 | honey give me the midday paper please dear |
| 24 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 25 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 26 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 27 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 28 | ‘ For God 's sake tell me the truth . |
| 29 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 30 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |