Example sentences of "i [vb past] to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 2 | I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long . |
| 3 | Yes , I have n't brought the modular things I mentioned to you on the phone the other day but I think it would be very useful to sit down and look at structuring that |
| 4 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 5 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 6 | As I indicated to you on the phone on Friday , I believe it is appropriate that I formally review the position of the sale of your company following receipt of the indicative offers . |
| 7 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |
| 9 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
| 10 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 11 | ‘ I talked to her through the door . |
| 12 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 13 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 14 | ‘ Because I spoke to him on the phone and he sounds a tough customer . |
| 15 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ No , I spoke to him on the phone . |
| 17 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 18 | ‘ I spoke to him on the phone to complain about him putting my name in an article . |
| 19 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 20 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 21 | I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures . |
| 22 | Again , when I spoke to you during the interims , I was expecting redundancies during the year of , of er , about a thousand . |
| 23 | Thank you for giving me brief details of the grounds maintenance agreed for Scorton Playing Field when I spoke to you on the phone recently . |
| 24 | I spoke to you on the phone at work er have you got your home number ? |
| 25 | As I said to you er when I spoke to you on the phone , I wanted to come erm one to introduce myself because I 'm now the new financial adviser for this area , erm also to review your existing policies to make sure that they are doing what they were originally designed to do . |
| 26 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 27 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 28 | So if we start pulling them about which is cos I said to her about the hall and if I do n't scrub it all off we 're gon na have to erm gon na have to do the hall and er I said we 've got to try to put it on because the walls are so ooh bitty you know what I mean ? |
| 29 | Ask my daughter what I said to her on the subject ! |
| 30 | I do n't like the idea of Ventolin this is what I said to them at the hospital that I ca n't , cos I 'm not on |