Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I asked somebody the way out and she offered to show me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Er , now , I asked you the table set have n't I ? |
| 8 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 9 | I made myself the timetable you know . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 13 | I sold him the car did n't I ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | at Christmas , I got him the beef |
| 16 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 17 | I told her the story . |
| 18 | I told her the story . |
| 19 | I told her the story . |
| 20 | I told her the story about the wine , that 's all . |
| 21 | That 's when I told her the rest . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I told her the flat was in too disgusting a state for her to come and visit . |
| 24 | I told her the number straight off . |
| 25 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 26 | I told her the answer was the Sun . |
| 27 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 28 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 29 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 30 | I told them the truth — he visits me , but he does n't live here . |