Example sentences of "i [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 2 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 3 | mm , I think maybe at the start though when I said do you have a beautiful body , maybe I asked the wrong questions , let me ask you this question at the end , do you like your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no , and maybe we 'll get a different answer then , eighty five people said no they did n't have a beautiful body , but fifty six people here say yes they like their body , forty four is too many people who do n't , why not ? , who said no ? , why , why do n't you ? , yes |
| 4 | I do n't imagine that he felt any easier immediately I applied the hot blankets , but suggestion is a powerful weapon in the armoury of the doctor , and he did at least manage a smile . |
| 5 | I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll have a lot of time to go back over the past in the coming years , I suppose , wonder whether I made the right choices at the right time . ’ |
| 7 | I unlocked the three clasps , took out the faded petals of a flower wrapped in oiled leather , as well as all the letters and documents from that fateful summer of 1520 . |
| 8 | I disdained the half-baked friends he chose , encouraged the good ones , pushed him into buying the right shoes and jackets , T-shirts and jeans , explained endlessly the use of ‘ could I ’ and ‘ may I ’ instead of ‘ give me ’ and ‘ I want ’ , the right way to make tea , the right way to use a fork and knife . |
| 9 | I scanned the xeroxed blurbs and reviews . |
| 10 | I met the two brothers , Ernie and Sidney , last night . ’ |
| 11 | I met the key officials from the Department of the Environment earlier this week and who told me that the Government is preparing to circulate a consultation paper on the National Sustainability Plan in mid June . |
| 12 | I passed the intervening hours in growing apprehension ; morning parade , the march through the darkness to breakfast . |
| 13 | I passed the second-hand clothes shops and the sign that said ‘ Used books and guns ’ on Commerce Street . |
| 14 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 15 | I checked the outer doors , too , and they were locked . ’ |
| 16 | oh I , I 'd never , I I realize now from six weeks ago when I got the damn things |
| 17 | Then the operation proceeded , I got the required notes and recorded the operation . |
| 18 | I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it |
| 19 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 20 | I had occasionally seen his photograph as I skimmed the financial sections of the newspapers . |
| 21 | In my last message I listed the impressive accolades won by you for Rentokil in the past year . |
| 22 | ‘ I tried the only ones I knew . ’ |
| 23 | For form 's sake , when I reached the house , I tried the french windows , then , round at the back , the door . |
| 24 | Visiting a number of campuses throughout China at graduation time , I found the official explanations difficult to accept . |
| 25 | ‘ I found the first steps of the next pitch were very difficult , and the rock rather pushed one out . |
| 26 | Then I went to Chartres , where I found the unequal spires of the Cathedral strangely homely and appealing after the stately symmetry of Notre Dame . |
| 27 | I felt liberated without the load , as if I could fly , and I found the cruel surroundings suddenly beautiful . |
| 28 | I found the early years far harder to cope with than the teens and others often agree with me . |
| 29 | I always saw myself as a creator of space for particular needs , and I found the best ideas which fitted in with that need and that slot and I then encouraged and challenged and stimulated and created the space for that production team to make that programme in the best possible way . |
| 30 | I found the proper cracks and set off jamming in between the bulging , blocky flutes that reminded so much of the solid Sennen cracks and of the second pitch of Doorpost — but they were rounded , too , and the cracks not deep — in places like a Lundy cliff , complete with grit and tufts of grass and alarming rattles . |