Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] i [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 2 | He tried to sell me a Pottz picture . |
| 3 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |
| 4 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 5 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 7 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 8 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She tried to spin me a yarn about her husband going back to Poland on holiday in 1950 and being killed in a car crash . |
| 10 | He promised to send me a card . |
| 11 | He promised to send me a fucking picture postcard . |
| 12 | He promised to send me a list , but I told him not to bother . |
| 13 | My father tried making me a wooden train , but that did n't satisfy me , as I wanted something that worked . |
| 14 | Before he went , Connors promised to get me a rundown on the police activity in the Fourth Precinct following the incident at the back of the Regal Arms . |
| 15 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 16 | I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college . |
| 17 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 18 | I thought someone 'd given me a TV set — I was so excited , I ripped the box open and this girl went , ‘ Can I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 19 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 20 | She 'd given me a shot to kill the pain and it was making me drowsy . |
| 21 | ‘ I rang him — he 'd given me a list of all the Grands Prix contact numbers — but when he came to my hotel the next morning it was of his own accord . ’ |
| 22 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 23 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 24 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 25 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 26 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 27 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 28 | I said ’ Oh yes ’ and I saw the and he 'd kept the collar on , and of course he 'd given me the one that tossed his head up did n't he ! |
| 29 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 30 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |