Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 61 | Hints that merry muses were at work on Woman 's Hour that day made me re-tune the tranny to FM to catch the results . |
| 62 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |
| 63 | I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’ |
| 64 | When we met I felt the most enormous sense of ‘ coming home ’ . |
| 65 | I have known you always , it seems , and when we at last met I felt the air between us stir as if you too knew . ’ |
| 66 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 67 | A forward has a sixth sense and from an early stage I realised I had the corner back in my pocket . |
| 68 | As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine . |
| 69 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
| 70 | One day the King invited me to watch the regular entertainments , which are greatly enjoyed by him , his family , and his lords and ladies . |
| 71 | I pressed Vimla to show me her dancing and eventually , after first consulting with Chaman , she invited me to join the household on their rounds , or ‘ going on tolly ’ as they call it . |
| 72 | The hon. Gentleman invited me to visit the area . |
| 73 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
| 74 | Watch out Christopher let me move the table . |
| 75 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |
| 76 | Harvey looked doubtful , but he let me take the gun from him . |
| 77 | ‘ Why do you think he let me take the firm over ? |
| 78 | That was the first time he let me see the extent of the bitterness that was poisoning him . |
| 79 | He caught me watching the reflection of his face |
| 80 | He helped me shift the tea-chests |
| 81 | Not in a very big way , but I 've got an eye for that sort of thing and I told him I would n't split on him if he resigned and helped me choose the successor I wanted . |
| 82 | One of the guys at the gate helped me give the Fiasco a push . |
| 83 | Then one of the others came and he helped me rehang the curtain and move the damaged screen . ’ |
| 84 | ‘ Peter Seabrook helped me build the pond on the programme , ’ he pointed out . |
| 85 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 86 | Sleeman 's Indian journeys , his great interest in local customs and religious beliefs , his explorations of temples and ruins wherever he went in pre-Mutiny India , helped me to see the Irish as an Indo-European people . |
| 87 | It also helped me retain the image of myself as someone special , set aside from the throng , this time because of superior talent . |
| 88 | I could never cook myself a meal , even with such complete mod. cons , and Hellen , who helped me arrange the furniture , pictures and scrolls , would tease me as ‘ the eternal bachelor ’ who could not fry an egg or boil water without burning it . |
| 89 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 90 | yes last week he helped me turn the garage out he took all the rubbish left over from the tip down to the tip . |