Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucker tells me I slept with a smile on my face . |
| 2 | I pull the Daily Telegraph out of my coat pocket and as Dixie explained to me I point to an article on the front page . |
| 3 | From what he told me I know for a fact the IRA did n't use Mick during their bombing campaign in England at the beginning of the war . ’ |
| 4 | Already on the day following Neddy 's pronouncement the industrial correspondent of The Times , whom I take as a representative of respectable opinion , was ecstatic with metaphors . |
| 5 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
| 6 | By way of variation I was coming off night duty one cold , grey winter 's morning and very much looking forward to a warm bed when , for some unknown reason , my revenue conscience was aroused by the sight of a man , whom I recognised as an engineer from one of our early morning ferries , hurrying up the road towards town . |
| 7 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 8 | Mr. Tom Andrews , whom I remember as a very old man , had worked at The White Hart Hotel and even in his old age was in demand if a ham had to be sliced for a wedding or similar function . |
| 9 | The young research scientist with whom I chatted in a Bonn café was not worried about nationalism . |
| 10 | We were also lucky enough to find Goutama , whom I remembered as a young syce in the Legation stables when I was a boy ; he had accompanied my father on his long trek to Nairobi in 1914 . |
| 11 | We turn it er turn them I said with a er cutting tool . |
| 12 | I I quoted for a rolled screw once , yeah and my buying price from I 'm talking about a year and half ago , was higher than 's quoted price for a ground bore screw . |
| 13 | It 's a little lad and I I looked through a window , I could see Judith holding this baby but you had to walk round to get to her and I knew before you 'd got there and you were all over the moon about this little baby and everything |
| 14 | And I would n't I I heard of a s very sleazy woman er near where I used to live , er I never met her , but it was all hearsay how many abortions she did . |
| 15 | Well yeah I I got in a lavender bush when I was small so |
| 16 | I I remember as a kid hearing of all this er how the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage , the ship within a ship . |
| 17 | I er ended up I I coasted round a corner which is something you should n't do |
| 18 | And while I was waiting for them I I went into a little shop and For some cigarettes , and er me brother y Oh younger brother , we 'd started him up er f he was a plumber . |
| 19 | I I I I went to a place first and er I and I I went home you know , without them knowing . |
| 20 | Yeah , I I mean I , or all I I went in a single shop . |
| 21 | I I think to an extent the bank have in helped small businesses to make this mistake . |
| 22 | I I live in a village as well and I mean they , I 've got the same |
| 23 | I I work to a pretty scale on these things . |
| 24 | And as I I recall on a Saturday morning I used to have to take the er one and sixpence each Saturday back to this House , and they used to issue us a little receipt and I remember my father keeping all those receipts until it was paid off . |
| 25 | So stealing being a quick resort , you 'd I 'd f I I know for a fact I 'd find myself turning to it firstly and not lastly . |
| 26 | Someone I met at a party ! |
| 27 | Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man . |
| 28 | ‘ Acquire a veneer of civilization , ’ she said unexpectedly , with a brutal honesty possible only with someone she regarded as an old friend . |
| 29 | I I it looks like a little mechanical |
| 30 | Hayman had implicit trust in his hit-men , especially against someone he regarded as an old , rusty , washed-up veteran . |