Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 2 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 3 | Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself . |
| 4 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 5 | Let let me introduce you to a nurse , a nurse called Nicola . |
| 6 | I suppose I 'd best ring Scottie and see if he wants me to process something about a picture then ? |
| 7 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 8 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 9 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 10 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 11 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 12 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 13 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 14 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 15 | ‘ I made them with a ruler , ’ he says . |
| 16 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 17 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 18 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
| 19 | I made it from a pattern |
| 20 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I regret it in a way , ’ he says thoughtfully . |
| 22 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 23 | I mean myself as a councillor I think i if you 're a councillor you should be involved in the strike in one way or another you know . |
| 24 | so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're |
| 25 | I mean I as a company Cumbria Power Tools will always , you know , it will survive because there 's only me and this |
| 26 | Yeah I mean she for a bit she was the party was n't she ? |
| 27 | Dinner I boil myself just a few potatoes , and I eat them with a piece of bread … |
| 28 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
| 29 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 30 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |