Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either you have not shown these plans elsewhere , in which case I owe you an apology … or you have touted them round , and the fools ca n't see what 's in front of them . ’ |
| 2 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 3 | In this hope I name it the Mar Pacifico . ’ |
| 4 | Of course I gave her an ‘ A ’ . |
| 5 | During his lunch-hour I give him the last orange , a biro and three lollipops , all I can muster , and wish him a happy birthday . |
| 6 | In reply I sent him a cutting from the catalogue of a well known UK mail order equipment company . |
| 7 | Very hard , very hard I told the lads I told 'em the union about it what he done that day . |
| 8 | I vill give you a game of dominoes , and if you vin … vell , den I buy you a drink . |
| 9 | That form bears the closest inspection and as the six-year-old has settled into his new surroundings at the Marriott Stables I give him the edge over Newton Point , whose cause will not have been helped by the rain . |
| 10 | I mean I tried it out at work I show you the this is what they used at work . |
| 11 | He said that he 'd telephoned every gallery I gave him the name of . |
| 12 | So as an aircraft came out of the engineering wing I gave it a test . |
| 13 | I got her flashies I bought her a flashies . |
| 14 | I cash in on my sex appeal I take all the credit I give you the |
| 15 | ‘ One day I asked her a question as I was getting on , and she just smacked my face … |
| 16 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 17 | The other day I sent you the invitation to the MRA Assembly here in June . |
| 18 | During the night I visited him every three hours as my vet had told me that if his leg had broken completely it would n't be fair to leave him suffering . |
| 19 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 20 | In any event I wish you every success and happiness in your chosen course and your future career . |
| 21 | Which helmet , oh the helmet I see him every morning driving to school . |
| 22 | You , you know that paper I showed you the , the reason that we 're making these recordings , it says so er words , so the normal words go on the state about and so they 'll know , they 'll know what the language was , why , in the nineteen nineties |
| 23 | This morning I boiled her a nice fresh egg , and she ate the lot . |
| 24 | about it and I did n't see her for weekend she gave me her phone number , Saturday morning I gave her a bell , said I would be walking the dog if you want to join me |
| 25 | For the rest of the journey I told him the plot of My Fair Lady . |
| 26 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 27 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
| 28 | The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two . |
| 29 | I 'll have them on Friday , if necessary but Thursday I get you a packet down . |
| 30 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |