Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he had seen the enemy aircraft and , as he winged over into a steep dive I followed him without question . |
| 2 | But by the time I tell you her story I want you to be prepared : that 's to say , I want you to have had enough of books , and parrots , and lost letters , and bears , and the opinions of Dr Enid Starkie , and even the opinions of Dr Geoffrey Braithwaite . |
| 3 | With my best caricature British accent I reduce him to a fit of stifled giggles . |
| 4 | Oh Mum I told you about that . |
| 5 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 6 | It is Sir Thomas Throgmorton , after the Grand Dickensian Banquet I told you about . ’ |
| 7 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 8 | when she came up yesterday I said , we 've had our dinner , I said do you want , want some dinner ? of course I put it in the oven for her |
| 9 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 10 | Thing was in fairness Martin er er it 's actually the sociability side er both both of you talked about the house did n't you and how , how long you came here and of course I changed it to how , the directions er which you gave me now |
| 11 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 12 | ‘ That afternoon I asked him about it . |
| 13 | This afternoon I confronted him with my suspicions , and he admitted everything . |
| 14 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 15 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 16 | ‘ Although when I approach a part I link it to someone I 've observed in real life , with drawing this observation is a much closer examination . |
| 17 | They are given in alphabetical order , and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable . |
| 18 | This is the strange storm I warned you of … |
| 19 | With deliberate irony I took him to Lock 's in St James 's Street , the most aristocratic hat-maker in London . |
| 20 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 21 | When I have found my tension I write it on a adhesive label and stick this on the inside of the cone , catching the tail end of yarn to the label at the same time . |
| 22 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 23 | Have you seen that advert on the telly I love it with George the boxer ? |
| 24 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 25 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 26 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 27 | Even in disguise I knew her at once , for a truly sensual woman can not disguise herself from my perceptions once I have seen her . ’ |
| 28 | rush and Summer slack I sell it by the yard . |
| 29 | In winter I fill them with a rich and succulent mincemeat mixture . |
| 30 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |