Example sentences of "to i one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 2 | That seems to me one way of dealing with inquiries about telephone numbers . |
| 3 | ‘ It does n't matter to me one way or the other . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's not a man or woman here who does n't know what happened to me one night ten years ago ! |
| 5 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 6 | ‘ Someone will have to explain this game to me one day , ’ I said , mournfully . |
| 7 | It was my philosophy professor , a native of the Antilles , who recalled the fact to me one day : ‘ Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews , pay attention because he is talking about you ’ . |
| 8 | I had a young fellow come up to me one day — he had eighteen months ' service . |
| 9 | Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’ |
| 10 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 11 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 12 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me more about your country , ’ he said to me one day . |
| 14 | ‘ What are we going to do , Toby ? ’ he said to me one day . |
| 15 | ‘ If you want to do something useful , ’ my mother said to me one day , ‘ you can help me propagate the cactuses . ’ |
| 16 | M. Would you read one to me one day ? |
| 17 | The American captain of a supply ship was chatting to me one day and asked me where we were based . |
| 18 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 19 | Three a year which was very nice and er oh well whilst I was there , you see , erm I landed up in , in Peel because I was going on a and she said to me one day this Miss er what are you doing today ? |
| 20 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 21 | They did that to me one day . |
| 22 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 23 | Because erm Derek was looking for a supervisor and he said to me one day in a moment of desperation he said who can I make up ? |
| 24 | I remember him waving to me one day , I thought who the bloody hell 's that ? |
| 25 | I said , oh I lo I love it , I lo , I said I know it sounds awful thought no more and then Shirley said to me when she 'd gone she said , she came up to me one day she said I wish to God he 'd stop that bloody noise , this time ! |
| 26 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 27 | But , said to me one day erm |
| 28 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 29 | And he sa and he said to me one day , are you fucking deaf ! |
| 30 | I rather think that he still lives in and as Marg said coyly to me one year , he had given her a lovely little candle in a special little bowl with , with water |