Example sentences of "i [verb] a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1963 I became a CID aide or trainee detective , engaged in run-of-the-mill work dealing with a flow of petty crime . |
| 2 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 3 | So that erm I mean if I recommended a Norwich Union income plan , and you nipped into Nottingham to buy , the charge would be the same , whether you bought it from me or from Norwich . |
| 4 | Years ago I owned a Mercedes Benz estate car . |
| 5 | The same year I got a Pears Cyclopaedia from him at Christmas . |
| 6 | I got a Derbyshire accent , okay ? |
| 7 | Called Psycho-Darwin , cos you know there 's a big boom in popular science publishing and erm , I got a New York agent called who 's very good at selling people books , and he 's sold , he 's sold mine . |
| 8 | I got a Michael Bolton album here . |
| 9 | At fifteen , when I could legally go out to work , I got a Saturday job which paid for my clothes ( except my school uniform , which was part of the deal , somehow ) . |
| 10 | In conjunction with the hon. Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) , as a member of the Select Committee , I visited a BP platform . |
| 11 | In the 1950s he felt we could n't afford a new car , so be bought a prewar London taxi , and he and I built a Nissen hut as a garage . |
| 12 | I want a Hovis loaf , it 's nice bread that is . |
| 13 | I want a Hovis loaf , dad . |
| 14 | Over the next few weeks , with Eva directing me — which she loved — I prepared a Sam Shepard speech from The Mad Dog Blues for my audition with Shadwell . |
| 15 | As I went out , past the shrouded furniture in the front room ( things made ready these twenty years past for the move that never came ) I noticed a Lowry reproduction hanging over the mantelpiece that had n't been there on my last visit . |
| 16 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 17 | I joined a Saturday morning class at Morley College , Westminster , in Sociology and sat with the principal , Mrs Eva Hubback to test the new curriculum in sociology . |
| 18 | I recall a Saturday midday lecture to Oxford undergraduate and graduate students in the 1970s when , after riveting them with a talk about double fluorescent labelling , he asked if they would be interested in hearing about experiments on motor systems ; they said they would and they abandoned lunch to listen . |
| 19 | We had very good musicians at the White Rock Pavilion , and my parents took Heather whilst I enjoyed a Sunday afternoon concert . |
| 20 | The barman said , ‘ S'it gonbee ? ’ and I ordered a Jack Daniels . |
| 21 | I spent a Saturday night recently on patrol with the police in central Cardiff and saw just how thin is the blue line which looks after law and order in the city at night . |
| 22 | I remember a December night : I heard the church clock strike nine as I went down into the garden — it was warm enough to walk . |
| 23 | I drive a Peugeot diesel . |
| 24 | ‘ I drive a Renault Boston , ’ she said . |
| 25 | ‘ We do have some strange requests one man came in and said can I have a Veronica Lake wig ! ’ laughed part-time assistant May Orritt . |
| 26 | Most kids have a pretty long list : ‘ Please may I have a Barbie doll with her van and a oops a daisy doll hands down games bensing babys teddy bears leggo my dolley suprise hungry hippoes . ’ |
| 27 | I feel a Penny Phillips moment coming on . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew a Dermot Cavanagh in Dublin , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Yet I knew a Wiltshire man who said that he burned hardly anything else ; and it was very fine , he said , when well seasoned . |
| 30 | Answers from the guys who 've actually seen some football this year ( you lucky , lucky people ! ) — actually I saw a Yale match last week — complete farce but that 's another story ! ! |