Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 2 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 3 | Tonight after supper I told him he could buy paper from Woolworths and use gloves and so on . |
| 4 | After dinner I left them to shed their autobiographical burdens , and joined the Hobbs at their table in the bar . |
| 5 | On one occasion when he was late for work I questioned him and he said he had missed the bus . |
| 6 | After he had left for work I found it , unmolested , under his coffee cup . |
| 7 | Well , I knew the movements of the ships , and the Emily was Captain Illingworth 's ship , and of course I knew him . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I knew she could read , ’ the mother said . |
| 9 | Of course I knew it would n't : I 'm not that foolhardy ! |
| 10 | Of course I knew he saw Otto , but not what those visits implied , and Helmut — whether from loyalty to his friend or on account of some sort of inhibition in relation to me — never hinted at anything improper . |
| 11 | Of course I knew he was a genius . |
| 12 | ‘ But from where I was out in the audience I could n't properly see what he was doing to get that amazing sound — so of course I assumed he was playing bottleneck . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course I imagined it . |
| 14 | " Well , of course I took it . |
| 15 | Of course I believed her when she said it would , but I wish you could have seen those first two lepidopteral visitors . |
| 16 | Yes , of course I thought he was an interfering shit . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course I made it . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course I meant it . |
| 19 | Of course I said I did . ’ |
| 20 | Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority |
| 21 | Of course I asked him to look carefully at the locked room , but we did n't find anything important . ’ |
| 22 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 23 | You know he 's moving , of course I told you . ’ |
| 24 | Of course I resented it . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course I liked them ! ’ she exploded . |
| 27 | Of course I liked him — you ca n't not like Oliver once you get to know him — but he did tend to monopolise things . |
| 28 | He worked hard , and he helped me — so of course I liked him . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Of course I stole it ; who else could have ? ’ |