Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 2 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 3 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 11 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 14 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 15 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 18 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 19 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 20 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | I got it with the fourth one |
| 23 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 24 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 25 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
| 26 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
| 27 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 28 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
| 29 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 30 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |