Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [pron] [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Mr talked in the debate about internal reorganisation about continuing to provide services for which there is an over provision and it berated me and the Labour group for that . |
| 2 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ A couple of interviews this morning , and I met Penny Seu Chen this afternoon and she showed me round our building , studios and offices , and we rearranged a few things in mine . |
| 4 | We got erm , got erm she bought me some Maltesers and she bought me a chocolate orange as well . |
| 5 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 6 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
| 7 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 8 | Pam was a very down-to-earth person and they thought I 'd get on well . |
| 9 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 10 | I spoke to Peter Chapple-Hyam this morning and he told me he had n't decided what to do . |
| 11 | She phoned this morning and I said I ca n't come and collect it cos I 'm here by myself she said oh I 'll bring it in , that 's alright , no problem but er we 're going away to Gloucester at two o'clock |
| 12 | He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’ |
| 13 | I met the key officials from the Department of the Environment earlier this week and who told me that the Government is preparing to circulate a consultation paper on the National Sustainability Plan in mid June . |
| 14 | I thought he was rather a funny man and he thought I was rather a funny girl . |
| 15 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 16 | But I had a really good music teacher in high school and he taught me relative pitch . |
| 17 | I got a social worker and she suggested I get a bus pass , so I could get to town . |
| 18 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 19 | and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best . |
| 20 | He was then involved in civil defence and he took me to see a trial designed to show that air-raid shelters built to government specifications were death-traps . |
| 21 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 22 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 23 | When I was asked by John Wakeham to join AEA as a part-time member in 1988 , it was clear that it would to help lead a similar re-orientation and I felt I could make a useful contribution . |
| 24 | And when I hear that , when you 're working you 're talking as well and he , he , he was a good talker and , and he , you know , he was a good union , a good clever speaker and he impressed me . |
| 25 | Told my dad about that one , told my dad about that one , I told my dad about that joke and he chased me from A to B , . |
| 26 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 27 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 28 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 29 | cos some of them are three ply and I thought I 'm not gon na sit and knit three ply . |
| 30 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |