Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 2 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 3 | ‘ I began to yearn for you the moment you left , ’ he told her in return . |
| 4 | Yeah , one look at him and even I had to say to myself the ladies , the poor ladies . |
| 5 | Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night . |
| 6 | During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant . |
| 7 | The personal engagement encapsulated here is not , after all , wholly different from the introduction to that much more objective modern study , the justly acclaimed biography of Mary by Lady Antonia Fraser ; for Lady Antonia describes how ‘ being possessed since childhood by a passion for the subject of Mary Queen of Scots , I wished to test for myself the truth or falsehood of the many legends which surround her ’ . |
| 8 | I wanted to lay on him the burden of our fractured present . |