Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there . |
2 | When the result of the canvass was conveyed to me I had no doubt whatever that it had been thorough and honest and that I could command the necessary support in Parliament . |
3 | ‘ After Nicholl was sacked Ian Branfoot took over and told me I had no future under him . ’ |
4 | ‘ He told me I had no right to inflict pain on those girls , because they 'd simply been telling the truth . ’ |
5 | ‘ He told me I had a problem because I refused to do anything with him . |
6 | At last he muttered stiffly , ‘ You told me I had a choice . ’ |
7 | One day the screw came up and told me I had a visit down in the solicitor 's ; I went down and this man presented himself as a court welfare officer . |
8 | He told me I had the love of Art , but not the religion of Art . |
9 | Behind me I heard a kind of yelp . |
10 | Among those to whom I sent a copy of the book on publication was Quintin Hailsham , then Lord Chancellor , with whom , despite our differences of opinion on many matters , I had been friendly over the years . |
11 | The choice of the latter led Leavis , to whom I sent the paper later , to expostulate , but at that time I thought that Read was heading for an eminence which , at least as a creative writer , he never attained . |
12 | There will be no difficulty in the importation , as the matter is countenanced by the Ministry , from whom I received the list . |
13 | But not the Indians with whom I had a year . |
14 | One of the most capable and widely respected of radio managers in Canada is Sid Boyling , with whom I had the pleasure of working , back in those early days of broadcasting at 1OAB where he was chief announcer . |
15 | Other Hollywood stars with whom I had the pleasure of working in the war effort included Fred MacMurray , Herbert Marshall , Edgar Bergen ( with Charlie McCarthy ) and Barbara Stanwyck , among others . |
16 | My creature , my invention , in whom I instilled the gift of life , escaped from my care . |
17 | While I found this amusing ( if rather regional ) , a real beginner in computing to whom I lent the book found it very off-putting . |
18 | ‘ Like Disneyland , ’ said the innocent , first-time Tory delegate with whom I shared a cab from the station . |
19 | Curiously however , the three traditional lecturers with whom I discussed the matter insisted that the plurality made no difference to assessment of students ' work ; in the words of Mr R : |
20 | Mr Nath said : ‘ The reason I became involved was I went to Romania to see another child , Bogdan , on whom I did an operation . |
21 | They were losing money on their early tours so to help them I dropped the touring commission to 10 per cent . |
22 | I told them I had no intention of budging an inch from this place , and if they could n't be civil they could both keep away . |
23 | See I 've got to remember , you see a few of them I had a load of them all talking , you know when I were at school ? |
24 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
25 | At one of them I had the experience of hearing the Bax works played by Eda Kersey . |
26 | Tell them I said the water will be fixed , soon . |
27 | But the post and er the I left them I left the post |
28 | It 's so funny it 's real entertainment someone at the Tate said er , you know when I told them I bought the bird bath , they said you will have lots of pleasure with that and I think I have . |
29 | er , we have in the East end of the village , including the pub , the farm , and various other properties , a certain type of properties that elevation , a certain sympathetic er amenity , and these buildings , I I heard the word mentioned earlier , I live in the country , I could live in the town , it does n't matter where I live , but these are not the sort of properties , in my opinion , that should be put on this particular site , er and they 're they 're totally , all our own elevations and plans of height , and they are totally and utterly out of proportion and out of scale with the present day entrance to the village , and whilst we 're not talking totally and utterly about looks , if you come down into the village they are going to be totally over powering , particularly in the , in the actual , in this situation of no hedges and that kind of thing , |
30 | I mean I I , I I drove the minibus with only somebody in with me before I drove out with people in it . |