Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 2 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 3 | Thing was in fairness Martin er er it 's actually the sociability side er both both of you talked about the house did n't you and how , how long you came here and of course I changed it to how , the directions er which you gave me now |
| 4 | With deliberate irony I took him to Lock 's in St James 's Street , the most aristocratic hat-maker in London . |
| 5 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 6 | When I got back to base , instead of being welcomed as the returning hero I thought myself to be , I was asked what had taken me so long . |
| 7 | In my warm , sleepy contentment I expected it to be Toby , the Toby of before . |
| 8 | Yes that was a nice , good job I mentioned it to her was n't it ? |
| 9 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
| 10 | In a feature interview with Percy Grainger next day I found him to be a charming and modest man , and was glad to write in glowing terms of his keyboard mastery , his repertoire , and his travels . |
| 11 | The first night I took them to bed at quarter past seven . |
| 12 | ‘ It was over the night I accompanied you to that dinner and backed up your story . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Last night I wanted you to be jealous , ’ she told him bluntly . |
| 15 | Paraded in my immaculate " dhobied " drill I presented myself to my commanding officer who glared at me , and dismissed me with these words : " I am astonished that you have the gall , Mahaddie , to apply for a pilot 's course … if anyone is foolish enough to ever recommend you , you would only kill yourself , and probably others , Good day ! " |
| 16 | In the course of the paper I addressed myself to the question : ‘ Why is it that people unhesitatingly talk of feeling hot as well as of feeling the heat of things ? ’ |
| 17 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 18 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 19 | My Lord the first er issue is as a matter of English law and the English law position , my Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship I took you to the case , we looked at the statements of er the House of Lords and er Lord in particular with whom the other Law Lords agreed , my Lord do you wish to go back to the fact again ? |
| 20 | Having got that near to international cricket I owed it to myself to try again . ’ |
| 21 | Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe . |
| 22 | That was n't the reason I gave her to David , but because she was a trained dancer and I thought she could help David get the simple steps of the minuet together , because he had difficulty in putting two steps together . |
| 23 | ‘ If you 're — uh — gay , as they insist on calling it these days , then I 'll just have to accept it , but I shall always blame myself , always wonder where I went wrong with you , wonder whether it was that school I sent you to , I was never sure if it was a mistake or ’ |
| 24 | But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to . |
| 25 | And then in some subtle way I allowed myself to be dominated by you . |
| 26 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ Every Parliamentary answer I have given or letter I despatched has been based on the position I understood it to be . ’ |
| 28 | All this time I said nothing to anyone of what I truly felt . |
| 29 | He does n't take rivalry with him off the competitive track , and at that time I considered him to be the Master with myself as the apprentice . |
| 30 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |