Example sentences of "i [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 2 | I got nothing at the table right . |
| 3 | and I got one on the C's . |
| 4 | I found something from the AIDS one the new Benetton advert , have you seen that ? |
| 5 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 6 | I learnt something of the joys , frustrations and bitterness of their lives . |
| 7 | I collated everything in the evening , I improvised , it would be a pleasure . |
| 8 | I fetched one from the dining-room , and gave it to him . |
| 9 | to get that back , that 's outlining , you know I merged something on the end that I do n't want to , it 's deleting |
| 10 | Tallis said , ‘ I killed one on the cliff . |
| 11 | Erm , I I heard something over the weekend , that that erm , mentioned er an American drug company , that has come up with whatever drug and it 's moved from being a million pound concern , into a multi-million pound concern , because of these discoveries , |
| 12 | Imagine that you have just come home from your hard day being an Environmental Health Officer , and your neighbour , who happens to be a builder or bookmaker or something , invites you down to the pub , and over a pint he says , ‘ I heard something on the radio about some story . |
| 13 | I heard everything at the Opera and Musikverein . |
| 14 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 15 | I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later . |
| 16 | I knew something about the bird life of the islands , having read articles about the rare and endangered Seychelles kestrel and magpie robin , but it was a chance encounter in — of all places — the Falkland Islands , that inspired my partner in Island Holidays to seek out more information . |
| 17 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 18 | I knew nothing about the event . |
| 19 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 20 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 21 | I told the Customs officers and now I 'm telling you — I knew nothing about the heroin . ’ |
| 22 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 23 | I knew nothing about the profession when I started , absolutely nothing . |
| 24 | Mains thus became the first ( and I am afraid , only ) rugby man who ever considered I knew anything about the game . |
| 25 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 26 | When I started the book in the summer of 1980 , I knew none of the East End skins . |
| 27 | You know I saw nothing of the sort when I for a fortnight in a . |
| 28 | I saw nothing of the scenery ; visibility was down to fifty yards . |
| 29 | Then I saw something on the ice in front of me . |
| 30 | I saw something on the television today it 's sitting there said they 've a cause about it |