Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 2 | Werewolf admired her motorbike , I asked her about weekend games at the farm . |
| 3 | I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland ! |
| 4 | I asked her to slack off on the ginger a bit |
| 5 | ‘ I asked her to supper on Friday . |
| 6 | ‘ Yesterday , when I asked you about animal rights , you said you were out of it and clammed up good and proper . |
| 7 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 8 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
| 9 | I hugged her in front of the Matisses . |
| 10 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 11 | I made you from oak . |
| 12 | Luckily , I made it in time . |
| 13 | Not that it came to me just thinking : I realized it at school . |
| 14 | I picked her up and she were wet through , had to put fire on and I laid her in front of fire |
| 15 | I laid it on soil ; the shoulders managed |
| 16 | ’ I met her in town one day last week . |
| 17 | I MET HIM ON HOLIDAY |
| 18 | I met him on holiday . |
| 19 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 20 | One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Matthews and I got them in town , Dr Streeter . |
| 22 | ‘ I got her with child , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 23 | I could n't stand it , I got him to retie my hands in front and then I unhooked the monsters and smashed them on the hearth . |
| 24 | I got mine from dining room centre |
| 25 | Well I do n't want everybody to start well I got it for christmas really . |
| 26 | She said well he said after that I got it off pneumonia . |
| 27 | As he began another story he paused and turned to Jimmy Currie with a twinkle in his eye : ‘ Do n't bother taking this one down Jimmy — I got it from you– . |
| 28 | Well as I 've taped that I taped it at home |
| 29 | ‘ I tried you at home earlier — has n't anyone mended your cable yet ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I found him at Church I : nd . |