Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 2 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 3 | Have you seen that advert on the telly I love it with George the boxer ? |
| 4 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 5 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 6 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 7 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 8 | There was a little article in the Sun I told you about . |
| 9 | ‘ Is that the type I strike you as ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Remember the lecture I gave you in the train . |
| 11 | Discovering how much I wanted you , right from the moment I saw you in the flesh for the first time , was harder still . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd promised I would never fall for the obvious attractions of another beautiful woman , but from the moment I held you in my arms my instinct told me that you were as different from Lotta as wine is from vinegar . ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , the police treated us both with the greatest sympathy and consideration from the moment I rang them from a callbox on the Abingdon Road . |
| 14 | " Why are you not wearing the medal I sent you as a keepsake ? " |
| 15 | Of course , I realize today , the place I hid them in everybody must have known where they were cos I was small and having to reach , and the large ones must have seen they were there anyway , but er it did n't dawn on me then . |
| 16 | ‘ Is that the wench I met you with in the High Street ? |
| 17 | I should have told you , the night I met you on Starr Hills ; but I 'd only that day realized and I was afraid who might be listening . |
| 18 | " I thought the same thing the night I saw him with her wedding-dress . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It was over the night I accompanied you to that dinner and backed up your story . |
| 21 | The person I got it from . |
| 22 | I propose to call her , but if in the event I judge it to be unnecessary then I shall invite because I do n't want to add unnecessarily to the length of these proceedings . |
| 23 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 24 | The day I met him in London , he was disappointed because a black comedy thriller with Dennis Hopper and Kyle MacLachlan had fallen through . |
| 25 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 26 | I read in that book in the library I told you about that the people who have it , the AIDS sufferers , they wake up in the morning soaking . |
| 27 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 28 | Old Saul was the culprit , Old Saul had gone down in our history and my personal mythology as the Castraitor , but thanks to the little creatures who flew the creek I had him in my power now . |
| 29 | Crawling across the floor I trapped him behind the settee . |
| 30 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |