Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
2 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
3 | I asked for it on Wednesday , she 's gone me one , she put in this bag and |
4 | Well , perhaps I asked for it in a way , ’ Felicity admitted reluctantly . |
5 | try and get some information on this they felt that they were confident that at the end of the day that erm , approval would be given but erm I I I asked for it in writing and they said we would n't be getting that . |
6 | I asked for you to be brought here to do a specific job . |
7 | Then I asked of him concerning the suffering . |
8 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
9 | I gazed at her with admiration . |
10 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
11 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
12 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
13 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
14 | I read about it in the paper today |
15 | That was the last , as I thought , of my Criterion obituary ; but because of some slightly disparaging remarks I made in it of Montgomery Belgion , a Criterion contributor , I incurred the bitter enmity of that enigmatic figure , which exploded years later when he reviewed my book on Simone Weil . |
16 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |
17 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
18 | I lived with her for four years . |
19 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
20 | remember how when I did buy it I I consulted with you to se , to show that we we were both compatible . |
21 | What information can I glean from you about these businesses that will help me erm produce the goods . |
22 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
23 | Could I stay with you for a few days and learn how you manage without magic ? " |
24 | You were on a raised platform and I passed before you in the parade . " |
25 | Erm , I pressed yes for having liking my own body , and I do , erm but I also like the slight improvements that I make on it like erm my hair |
26 | So I rode with him to his castle in Dunbar , and stayed there two weeks . |
27 | I rode with them in the cab ( we tossed the oneliners back and forth ) — to our destination . |
28 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
29 | So I got into it through those channels … . |
30 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |