Example sentences of "i tell [pron] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told myself that I had to face up to things ; John might have forgotten me , he might have been changed beyond recognition by his experiences ; he would not want me to mope . |
| 2 | I told myself that I had up to two hundred and no more . |
| 3 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 4 | I told myself that I did n't feel cold , that I felt nothing , that I had ‘ shut off my nerves ’ . |
| 5 | Well I told her that I get , I said to her look Margaret you could of been , you could of closed your eyes and he could of happened |
| 6 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 7 | I told her that I had had a sort of a breakdown , and that I was appalled by what I had done . |
| 8 | I told her that I had finished constructing the new kite , and that she could help me test it in the wind . |
| 9 | I told her that I had you at work then yesterday , right , she says oh no another one , right , and ended up |
| 10 | My mum got home from work about 10.30 p.m. and asked if I was all right , but I told her that I thought it was a false alarm . |
| 11 | I still have n't given , that 's reminded me seeing Shona there , I , I do n't think I 've given her that pair of trousers and the sweatshirt and I told her that I 've got them . |
| 12 | Last night I told her that I did n't want to see her again . |
| 13 | I do n't think the woman in the New York Avis office believed me when I told her that I wanted to hire a convertible . |
| 14 | I told her that I loved her . ’ |
| 15 | I told her that I loved her very much and wanted to marry her . |
| 16 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 17 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 18 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 19 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 20 | I told him that I had heard he was involved in a recording project with Mo Foster . |
| 21 | I told him that I had the one that was n't — but had no symptoms at all and even felt ‘ high ’ . |
| 22 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
| 23 | Back down here I told him that I had to get the sex business cleared up . |
| 24 | I told him that I had watched cows being milked — that was all — but I liked the look of it . |
| 25 | I told him that I had another shop in Westmead which has been approved by the Ministry of Environment and the RSPCA and that this one will be run in the same way . |
| 26 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 27 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 28 | ‘ I told him that I wanted £5,000 from him . |
| 29 | I planned to travel with him , but I told him that I wanted to go walking in the mountains alone . |
| 30 | I told him that I did n't really see the point in him talking to Frank and me separately . |