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Example sentences of "i [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	I found something from the AIDS one the new Benetton advert , have you seen that ?
4	It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father .
5	I collated everything in the evening , I improvised , it would be a pleasure .
6	I fetched one from the dining-room , and gave it to him .
7	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
8	Tallis said , ‘ I killed one on the cliff .
9	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 ,
10	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 .
11	I heard everything at the Opera and Musikverein .
12	I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later .
13	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 .
14	I knew nothing about the event .
15	I told the Customs officers and now I 'm telling you — I knew nothing about the heroin . ’
16	I knew nothing about the profession when I started , absolutely nothing .
17	Mains thus became the first ( and I am afraid , only ) rugby man who ever considered I knew anything about the game .
18	Not that I knew anything about the area of course .
19	You know I saw nothing of the sort when I for a fortnight in a .
20	I saw nothing of the scenery ; visibility was down to fifty yards .
21	Then I saw something on the ice in front of me .
22	I saw something on the television today it 's sitting there said they 've a cause about it
23	I often walked along the shore , and one day I saw something in the sand .
24	I saw one in the box once when she was trying her pearls on to see if they went with one of the dresses .
25	I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘
26	I only just caught the train , and when , a quarter of an hour later , we pulled in to Lochgair , and I should have got my bag and quit the Sprinter and walked to the house and finally have talked — sober , and not in the context of a game of Alternative Charades — to my father , and apologised , and spent the three hours until the next Glasgow train with my mother and father in some longed-for spirit of reconciliation , I did nothing of the sort .
27	Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things .
28	I won one for the poem and one for the song .
29	When I said something of the sort , Dr Kepepwe explained that most of the original staff of the hospital were serving with British troops in Operation Total Tartary , in Murmansk , Usbekistan , the front in the Caucasus , and the new revolutionary area opening up round Lake Baikal .
30	I tried once or twice to reverse our roles , but he again made it clear that he did not want to talk about himself I said nothing about the glove .