Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 32 | Folding the poem , I laid it on the table . |
| 33 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 34 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 35 | We wotchered each other as I led him across the road . |
| 36 | I led him into the billiard room where I stoked the fire while he sat down in one of the leather chairs and began to remove his shoes . |
| 37 | She said , ‘ I led him into the chapel of the Madonna , just like you told me . |
| 38 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 39 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 40 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 41 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 42 | He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company . |
| 43 | He said : ‘ I met her in the March . |
| 44 | He said : ‘ I met her in the March . |
| 45 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 46 | I met him during the summer vac . |
| 47 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 48 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 49 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 50 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 51 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 52 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 53 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |
| 54 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
| 55 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 56 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 57 | " I met him in the toilet at the bus station . " |
| 58 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |
| 59 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 60 | I met him in the hall — ’ she explained , and was going on to warn Rob to tone down his exuberance when she saw Luke coming towards them . |