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Example sentences of "i [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	To find out what the food was like in the RAF today I asked the Catering Branch to tell me how things were different from my days ( the 1950's , I 'm not that old ! ) .
2	I asked the probation department if they could arrange a visit as it did n't look like anyone else was going to .
3	I asked the Home Secretary to list the kinds of information currently held on the police national computer under the data class of warning signals .
4	I asked the VD clinic about the glands while on a routine checkup .
5	Against my better judgment , I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland .
6	At the entrance to the Press tent I asked the security man if Toby was inside and he pointed him out in the middle of the usual muddle of desks and papers , with telephones ringing and cigarette smoke drifting , and expletives exploding .
7	I asked the security guard to order me a taxi . ’
8	I avoided the chocolate cake because I thought it looked a little sickly .
9	Then I faked the car crash . ’
10	I made the brandy sauce for the pud but I think I 've put too much brandy in it and now Paul wo n't let me back in the kitchen .
11	On the other hand I was afraid that if I made the driver sound too important he might end up under the wheel of a bus instead of behind one .
12	I made the letter sound as if all was well , and I suppose it was .
13	I unlocked the passenger door of the Transit for them but I thought it best not to open it for them or offer them a hand up and in .
14	Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year .
15	Today I met the faith healer Ronnie Hazlehurst recommended .
16	I met the company commander ; I told him I had brought up some grenades and barbed-wire ; I asked where I was to put them .
17	Tony and I shared the navigation seat , and right now I was in the back , warm , comfortable and dozing gently .
18	I 'm very relieved you 're going into action — and you might like to know I reworded the signal Buckmaster was sending , made it , shall we say less positive . ’
19	I cruised the opening heat with 10.32 seconds , beating Desai Williams of Canada and Cameron Sharp .
20	When I heard Richard on the stairs , I emptied the ash tray into a drawer : he never smoked himself and disliked my doing so .
21	I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp .
22	Then it happened again and I checked the fuel filter and discovered that is was contaminated .
23	I checked the car clock and it was twenty past ten .
24	They were big and I registered the yob uniform — jeans and bomber jackets .
25	I say to daddy , when I got the money mate and I 've now I 'm now putting ten pound a week for fat Harry .
26	Melville explains , ‘ The downside got overlooked because of the crusading side , but eventually I got the sex mag blues .
27	And I got the Engine Room boys in the basement to give me three photocopies of our Romanian friend . ’
28	I got the exercise book out of my bag and tore the middle two sheets out .
29	Malcolm did n't think Chrissie being larruped with Nick 's belt in his shop was good for business So I got the weekday job again .
30	That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board !