Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall .
2 Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack .
3 It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress .
4 I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment .
5 FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … .
6 And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator .
7 ‘ Here , let me shield you from the wind . ’
8 The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems .
9 He sang If You Were the Only Girl in the World and he sang Help Me Make It Through the Night .
10 On the day Sir Hubert arrived in Rangoon he sent for me to thank me for the way in which this delicate matter had been handled .
11 In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’
12 Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself .
13 I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do .
14 Let let me introduce you to a nurse , a nurse called Nicola .
15 Let me introduce you to the world of press releases .
16 Let me introduce you to the class .
17 Crilly tells me to meet him at the Hope and Vixen in half an hour .
18 He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags .
19 ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls .
20 but when I asked them for a crayon ,
21 I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it .
22 So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath .
23 ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry .
24 I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings .
25 It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here .
26 When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been .
27 I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned .
28 I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away .
29 When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’
30 I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident .
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