Example sentences of "[vb past] i the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 2 | She lent me the money to get my second bike — that Triumph Speed Twin : it had a lot of poke for the size . |
| 3 | I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’ |
| 4 | Ginny lent me The King Must Die . |
| 5 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 6 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 7 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 8 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 9 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 10 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 11 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 12 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 13 | Rounds of 67 , 69 , 66 and 65 made me the winner of the Lancome Trophy and a very happy man . |
| 14 | Which made me the family oddity . ’ |
| 15 | He sold me the caravan . |
| 16 | As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic . |
| 17 | ‘ The first time Jimmy Patino , who represented family interests on the board , came to a meeting , he read me the riot act about how of every £1 I was talking about , 51p was owned by the family , and of that 51p , 25p of it was his . |
| 18 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 19 | He passed me the receiver , saying unnecessarily , ‘ It 's Ronnie Curzon . ’ |
| 20 | And passed me the shovel . |
| 21 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 22 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 23 | Is he aware that they posed me the question , ’ Is anybody in the Government prepared to stand up and fight to defend the coal industry ? ’ |
| 24 | In 1238 Alexander III 's father promised me the crown but then he married again and begat Alexander , the third of that name , and the up was dashed from my lips . |
| 25 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
| 26 | and erm , she phoned me the night before last for the results come through |
| 27 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 28 | Yes Chairman , of the hundred and sixty thousand plus cost , erm , part of the contribution by the major servicing committee , and I understand that they advised me the balance has been made from local contributions , and charitable sources . |
| 29 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |
| 30 | While I was there Sean told me the knife he used to slice the lemons with was stolen last Friday ! ’ |