Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [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 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 4 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
| 8 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 9 | so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're |
| 10 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
| 11 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
| 12 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 13 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 14 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 15 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 17 | I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 21 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 22 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
| 23 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 30 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |