Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 2 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 3 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 4 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 5 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 6 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 7 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 8 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 10 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 11 | I asked him after the event what he thought . |
| 12 | I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 . |
| 13 | ‘ I asked her about the make and she said she did n't know . |
| 14 | I asked her about the letter and she kne she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast . |
| 15 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 16 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 17 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
| 18 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |
| 19 | ‘ Good afternoon , ladies and gentlemen , it is with great pleasure that I introduce you to the magic of television … ‘ |
| 20 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 21 | I commend them to the house . |
| 22 | Our amendments would er restore democratic accountability for police authorities , they would remove the proposed concentration of power in the hands of the Home Secretary and I commend them to the Committee . |
| 23 | Mr Hurd : I listened to my hon. Friend 's particularly interesting speech on that theme on Monday , and I commend it to the House . |
| 24 | I commend it to the House . |
| 25 | As such , I commend it to the House . |
| 26 | I commend it to the House . |
| 27 | The Bill is the right Bill for the job and I commend it to the House . |
| 28 | I commend it to the House . |
| 29 | The Bill matches the needs of the times , and I commend it to the House . |
| 30 | I believe that the timetable that we are proposing offers a sensible and balanced way of achieving all the different objectives , including the legitimate desire of the House to consider the Bill fully , and I commend it to the House . |