Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] i [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 2 | " That nice friend of yours who spent the week-end told me you had a lot of Oriental stuff , " Mrs. Hargreaves went on . |
| 3 | ‘ The dairyman told me you hated old families . ’ |
| 4 | The line tightening in the water told me they had done so , and I struck before all the bow had been taken out of the line . |
| 5 | On the morning of the operation day , the surgeon told me he thought Michael had only a few months to live . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when I got my teacher 's job , the aunt told me I owed her a lot of money . |
| 7 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 8 | The 21-year-old star — plucked from children 's TV last year to host TOTP — says : ‘ The doctors told me I had a very bad case of food poisoning . ‘ |
| 9 | I 'd always wanted a little girl , but one of the students at the door told me I had a beautiful little boy and he was fine . |
| 10 | ‘ The League informed me I had to sell my Middlesbrough shares or resign as a Darlington director . |
| 11 | ‘ The sergeant told me he had done all that was required and then got stroppy . |