Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a hansom pipped me to a good prospect , in Threadneedle Street . |
| 2 | ‘ It took virtually the whole of my grandmother 's legacy to buy out the lease — all I 've got left is a bit to keep me going until I start to show a profit . |
| 3 | ‘ The whole thing has got to a ludicrous stage when that is used as a stick to beat me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Daddy was always trying to use the money as a stick to beat me into changing my way of life . |
| 5 | It was just a stick to beat me with , was n't it ? ’ |
| 6 | The following morning I rose early , dressed and asked for a driver to take me and my suitcase to the hospital . |
| 7 | A rheumatologist told me that his aim was to enable his patients to go on living their particular chosen lifestyle with the least possible hindrance and pain . |
| 8 | What a coil do I make for the loss of my punk |
| 9 | For someone who can give an object as plain and manageable as a book all the symmetry and neatness of a loosely wrapped food blender , the prospect of getting cumbersome gardening tools into a parcel terrifies me . |
| 10 | Yes I want to go in , oh when I come round I need a contract signed I also need an order with this wording on it . |
| 11 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 12 | A correspondent told me of her visit to a hospital mortuary to identify her 20-year-old daughter , who had been killed in a car crash . |
| 13 | A correspondent sent me the programme for the Annual Social of the Female Caseroom at the Ballantyne Press , held in Swan 's Tea Rooms in April 1906 . |
| 14 | A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder . |
| 15 | And I said , Okay look , if I 'm gon na say something to anybody , I want to have a look show me what you 're talking about . |
| 16 | Just take a look got me little list knocking round . |
| 17 | Well , you deserve that , standin' by me like you did and givin' me your bed when I 'ad n't got a farthing to call me own . |
| 18 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 19 | ‘ Was it worth so great a violation to do me such a little hurt ? ’ |
| 20 | See people did n't have cars , and if it was now , they could only help me by bringing a horse to meet me or erm or a tractor if they half way . |
| 21 | If I had a wedding ring I would give it back . |
| 22 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 23 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 24 | From Janet 's Foss my way led across the road and through a gate where the Dales Park have placed a plaque telling me that this is Gordale Scar and to keep to the path . |
| 25 | The hand of a mermaid beckoning me |
| 26 | To this letter I received a reply dated I March which contained some of the most interesting remarks he ever communicated to me , and which is of permanent value in reflecting his opinions on much wider issues : |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 28 | Being rather backward-looking by nature ( except for science ) , the feminists have always had a talent to enrage me … ‘ |
| 29 | Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship . |
| 30 | The next day I received a telegram informing me that my request to be transferred to clerical duties at the Ministry of the Interior had been granted . |