Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this hope I name it the Mar Pacifico . ’ |
| 2 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I mean I tried it out at work I show you the this is what they used at work . |
| 5 | He said that he 'd telephoned every gallery I gave him the name of . |
| 6 | I cash in on my sex appeal I take all the credit I give you the |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The other day I sent you the invitation to the MRA Assembly here in June . |
| 9 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 10 | Late that night I ask myself the age-old question . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | For the rest of the journey I told him the plot of My Fair Lady . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 16 | finished that medicine I finished it the my chest , I still feel sick . |
| 17 | That was the first time I discovered what the word ‘ reputation ’ meant . |
| 18 | ‘ Yet at the same time I imagined what the celebrations would be like at Molineux . |