Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone I spoke to was against the widening of the roads especially the steep pass down into Kinlochewe . |
| 2 | This was my first visit to the line and apart from being impressed by the set-up I felt a genuine warmness from everyone I spoke to . |
| 3 | ‘ You were rather mean by the way to tell everyone I spoke to — or was about to speak to — not to talk any more to Scotland Yard . |
| 4 | Lucker tells me I slept with a smile on my face . |
| 5 | Whenever they visited me I listened to him reading . |
| 6 | One family gave me a day off every month , told me I had to be back before nine in the evening and checked my bag when I left to see if I had n't robbed anything . |
| 7 | Taking Harry gingerly with me I moved to the left , towards the wall , and with great relief found that there was indeed a walkway there at about the height of my waist . |
| 8 | Last ti me I dined at Balliol I sat next to the Regius Professor of Chemistry , aged around 193 , who told me about his visit to Egypt before the war , probably the Boer War . |
| 9 | And the car just went like this into the middle of the road slowly towards me I swerved onto the grass |
| 10 | I put the remains of our dinner on the window ledge to attract them , and when one of them alighted near me I called to it , ‘ Taste this couscous , steamed and mixed with oil , English pigeon , and tell me if it 's nice . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ People in football will understand — Lennie Lawrence told me I needed to be superhuman to perform in that atmosphere . |
| 12 | As a result of what one of the men ( the witness ) John Smith said to me I spoke to the accused etc . ’ |
| 13 | There was nothing I longed for more than to get into my car , slam the door behind me , close out this looming world of rage and violence . |
| 14 | But nothing I took from Lonrho proved misleading . |
| 15 | ' ’ The beautiful lady whom I drove in my car ? |
| 16 | Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded . |
| 17 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
| 18 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 19 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |
| 20 | ‘ During the critical 48 hours which preceded 11 a.m. on 3 September 1939 , ’ wrote Joyce , ‘ not one of the people whom I met in Berlin could conceive that Britain would go to war with Germany . |
| 21 | The businesses are village based , and guided by a few extraordinary enablers , one of whom I met in Aspen . |
| 22 | There was also no lack of contacts , who , starved of literature , were exhilarated to be able to talk about Eliot : a Captain Richardson , whom I met in Eritrea , engaged to a charming Italian , proved one of those contacts whom the war brought together and separated , reminding me in some ways of the young Eliot and Jean Verdenal . |
| 23 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 24 | The government 's Chief Medical Officer , Dr Henry Yellowlees , was the son of a distinguished psychiatrist , whom I had on more than one occasion retained as an adviser in private practice . |
| 25 | Jack 's agent was already well ensconced at a table with half a dozen people , a couple of whom I recognised as regulars on the pro-am circuit . |
| 26 | By way of variation I was coming off night duty one cold , grey winter 's morning and very much looking forward to a warm bed when , for some unknown reason , my revenue conscience was aroused by the sight of a man , whom I recognised as an engineer from one of our early morning ferries , hurrying up the road towards town . |
| 27 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 28 | My enthusiastic return to the guitar business , to announce the greatest sensation in the history of the electric guitar , is being met with the most incredible barrage of libel and slander from various publications and potential customers — many of whom I counted among my friends . |
| 29 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 30 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |