Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 5 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 8 | ‘ I made them with a ruler , ’ he says . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | I made it from a pattern |
| 13 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 14 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
| 15 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 18 | Some some of them were never in t I well I did n't know my aunt when I met her with a hat on . |
| 19 | I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds . |
| 20 | I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her . |
| 21 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 22 | I met him at a Conference , in Paris . ’ |
| 23 | I met him at a party . |
| 24 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 25 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 26 | ‘ When he was vice-president , I met him at a stage dinner when the Reagans were in the White House and we had a dance and we talked about playing tennis . |
| 27 | Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism . |
| 28 | ‘ I met him at a tennis club , and he was a very , very attractive man indeed . |
| 29 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
| 30 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |