Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [verb] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 2 | The previous owner tells me he thinks it came from a 1976 vehicle but the distributor and starter motor are dated 1972 , 1971 . |
| 3 | ‘ The Prime Minister told me he would discuss the details with his officials and come back to us . |
| 4 | Another canteen worker in the same village told me she does a shift from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. , returns home to work for her family , then she 's back at the pit from 7.30 p.m. until 10.45 p.m . |
| 5 | The American consul told me they still force the peasants to do corvee . |
| 6 | The teacher turned up at the police station at eight the next morning to tell me she was taking responsibility for my daughter . |
| 7 | ‘ A few people told me it could n't be done but the prep races all fitted into his programme and we would hope to do something along similar lines next time . |
| 8 | ‘ A little bird told me it was your birthday , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
| 10 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |
| 11 | I can not choose something as an end simply because a wiser man tells me I would want it if I understood myself better , because I can not choose ends at all by inferring from facts about my inclinations ; the choice of an end is nothing else but the spontaneous settling of inclination in one direction or other , and the honest or self-deceiving interpretation of its goal . |