Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … .
2 Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself .
3 I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do .
4 But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative .
5 I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned .
6 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 .
7 I flung it on the open ledger on the table .
8 Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required .
9 The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log .
10 And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so
11 so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're
12 I commandeered it without a second thought . ’
13 I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park .
14 ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully .
15 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 .
16 And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly .
17 She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’
18 I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her .
19 ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’
20 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 .
21 And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney .
22 I met him at the Labour Club .
23 A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan .
24 ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
25 One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent .
26 I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
27 My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
28 That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago .
29 I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh .
30 I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price .
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