Example sentences of "the [noun] i [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 3 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 4 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 5 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 6 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 7 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 8 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 9 | There was a little article in the Sun I told you about . |
| 10 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 11 | ‘ Remember the lecture I gave you in the train . |
| 12 | Discovering how much I wanted you , right from the moment I saw you in the flesh for the first time , was harder still . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd promised I would never fall for the obvious attractions of another beautiful woman , but from the moment I held you in my arms my instinct told me that you were as different from Lotta as wine is from vinegar . ’ |
| 14 | Indeed , the police treated us both with the greatest sympathy and consideration from the moment I rang them from a callbox on the Abingdon Road . |
| 15 | " Why are you not wearing the medal I sent you as a keepsake ? " |
| 16 | Of course , I realize today , the place I hid them in everybody must have known where they were cos I was small and having to reach , and the large ones must have seen they were there anyway , but er it did n't dawn on me then . |
| 17 | ‘ Is that the wench I met you with in the High Street ? |
| 18 | I should have told you , the night I met you on Starr Hills ; but I 'd only that day realized and I was afraid who might be listening . |
| 19 | " I thought the same thing the night I saw him with her wedding-dress . |
| 20 | ‘ As sure as hell not to see through , that 's a fact ! ’ he ripped into her flatly , and , before she could draw breath , he prodded at the folder that lay on his desk and rapped , ‘ You read perfectly well from this file — without your glasses — the night I delivered it to your apartment ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It was over the night I accompanied you to that dinner and backed up your story . |
| 22 | ‘ All the things I told you about Petula … they applied just as much to a jealous dog as to a jealous woman . |
| 23 | The person I got it from . |
| 24 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 25 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 26 | The day I met him in London , he was disappointed because a black comedy thriller with Dennis Hopper and Kyle MacLachlan had fallen through . |
| 27 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 28 | I read in that book in the library I told you about that the people who have it , the AIDS sufferers , they wake up in the morning soaking . |
| 29 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 30 | With my head bent over the sink I had plenty of time to work out my options . |