Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Er , now , I asked you the table set have n't I ? |
| 62 | If those , all of those contract temps are regarded as full time people it looks like full time people are working overtime , which is why I asked you the question yesterday erm what 's the overtime bill for quotes alone . |
| 63 | Then I forge myself a letter . |
| 64 | Hell , I had a bumper sticker saying ‘ Have You Hugged Your Kids Today ? ’ and , sure , I hugged them every day I could , but nowadays I sometimes wonder just what in hell is going on inside their heads . |
| 65 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 66 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 67 | I made myself a cape from an old camel hair coat , I could not wear that of Queen Alexandra 's Service . |
| 68 | I made myself a pot of mint tea and sat silently at the living-room table . |
| 69 | I made myself a coffee and went to bed , pausing to look in and say goodnight to Nigel on the way , which at the time , and since , did n't seem at all an unusual thing to do . |
| 70 | A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island . |
| 71 | Before getting into my sleeping-bag I made myself a cup of cocoa , without milk , which I do n't much like , and with a generous lacing of whisky , which I do . |
| 72 | ‘ When you did not come to see him I made myself a vow that you would face reality and not some story that has been hammered into you since childhood . |
| 73 | I made myself a nice profit out of it . |
| 74 | I made myself the timetable you know . |
| 75 | No I did n't even get up for that , I come downstairs , I made myself an orange juice he Vicked me back and me front again I tried to get back to sleep . |
| 76 | Mrs Jones recalls , ‘ I made him a robe and head-dress and his father made him a crook . |
| 77 | When we got to my house , I gave Man Friday some trousers , and I made him a coat and a hat . |
| 78 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 79 | " He just came down here , and I made him a cup of tea and we said an act of contrition together . " |
| 80 | But I made him a vow , ’ she shrugged . |
| 81 | him something else for Christmas , something smaller and I made him a model out of matchsticks and I said this is the prototype |
| 82 | God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is . |
| 83 | I made him an illusion . |
| 84 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 85 | she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool . |
| 86 | I made her a cup of coffee , she went to sleep . |
| 87 | And I have , I think I made mine a bit strong ! |
| 88 | well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that |
| 89 | I made you a drink last night duck . |
| 90 | I made you a drink today and all . |