Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 2 | Once I felt comfortable in them I wore them on a couple of long section of the Cotswold Way and they fared well . |
| 3 | I I regarded him as a a professional , highly trained officer er confidence in his judgement . |
| 4 | I I I recorded it in a closed classroom during the lunch-time playtime |
| 5 | ‘ I paid for the rent for the villa , which I arranged myself with a Belgian count who owned it , and also paid the air fares for all the Mellors , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I told you I did it for a bet . ’ |
| 7 | I told him I wanted one with a self-timer on it . |
| 8 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |