Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 2 | I asked what the rest did but he must have heard it before because he was not amused . |
| 3 | I asked what the Lewis ailments were compared to those in Australia . |
| 4 | Feeling that further conversation was needed , I asked what the roses were like at Sutton that summer . |
| 5 | I asked what the DTI officials had said , and he said that they had told him nothing . |
| 6 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 7 | Just on the shall we say off-chance I asked what the situation was regarding additional lines between Norwich and Crawley as between Stansted Norwich and Crawley to see if there was anything under way and what the approximate cost would be because erm well I know there 's more D D I facilities now . |
| 8 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 9 | I asked him the differences between the Quechua and the Spanish view of the world . |
| 10 | I asked somebody the way out and she offered to show me . |
| 11 | If those , all of those contract temps are regarded as full time people it looks like full time people are working overtime , which is why I asked you the question yesterday erm what 's the overtime bill for quotes alone . |
| 12 | Er , now , I asked you the table set have n't I ? |
| 13 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 14 | I made myself the timetable you know . |
| 15 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 16 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 17 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 18 | I sold him the car did n't I ? |
| 19 | I passed her the tissues as I always do . |
| 20 | After a few minutes , he got out and wandered over : ‘ Here , son , give me a shot at that , ’ he said , and I passed him the rod . |
| 21 | at Christmas , I got him the beef |
| 22 | ‘ I got him the Sydney job , ’ she vouchsafed with delicate emphasis . |
| 23 | And I got you the roses . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 25 | I told her the story . |
| 26 | I told her the story . |
| 27 | I told her the story . |
| 28 | I told her the story about the wine , that 's all . |
| 29 | That 's when I told her the rest . |
| 30 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |