Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I failed to get myself introduced the other night . |
| 2 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 3 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
| 4 | I tried to look as if this was perfectly normal , as if I 'd asked him to make the entry for me . |
| 5 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 6 | In June 1941 , Anno XIX Era Fascista , I became a ragioniera , an accountant ; the diploma I received entitled me to put the Rag . |
| 7 | ‘ But once Northants had given me a chance , I did think I had the talent . |
| 8 | I did assist her to cross the river . |
| 9 | ‘ Then I did hear them fire the gun last night ! |
| 10 | So I said do you want the truth or you want me to yourself ? |
| 11 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 12 | I said have you got the paddy ? |
| 13 | Right away I had to leave it to answer the telephone . |
| 14 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 15 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
| 16 | I had understood he knew the man who is to chair the said development committee and it transpires he does not . |
| 17 | She put a condom on me and we got stuck in , but as soon as I had ejaculated she whipped the condom off me , leaving me floundering for a while on the bed . |
| 18 | I was astonished by the number of people there and grateful for their warmth and support , but I felt I had to convince everybody to take the campaign home with them . |
| 19 | I wanted to make you suffer the way I was suffering . |
| 20 | ‘ I did it because I wanted to make you look the way you do now . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I wanted to experience what made the man . |