Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 2 | Although I tease it with a tender rage |
| 3 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 4 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 5 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 6 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 7 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 8 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 9 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 11 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |
| 12 | I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’ |
| 13 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 14 | I try to justify it in terms of training the intellect to think in an abstract and critical way , so I regard it as a general education . |
| 15 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 16 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 17 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 18 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |
| 19 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 20 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And me buying it from a stall in the flea market only last week . ’ |
| 22 | This way , Dad and I get you for a little longer . |
| 23 | Both my husband and I accepted it as a part of our way of life . |
| 24 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
| 27 | ‘ The gate 's open , ’ she said , ‘ and I wedged it with a brick . ’ |
| 28 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 29 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |
| 30 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |