Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear from everyone I asked to comment that I was not alone in thinking the evening was a resounding success . |
| 2 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 3 | Which reminds me I meant to get weighed this morning before I had my breakfast . |
| 4 | and you read the number to me I said to see if I 've got it right . |
| 5 | ‘ The League informed me I had to sell my Middlesbrough shares or resign as a Darlington director . |
| 6 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
| 7 | was spinning , I thought I was gon na jump off the roof , I rang my G P and said , you never told me I had to decrease this dose , hang on just get through the weekend , |
| 8 | I had desperately wanted to rush outside and leave the whole wretched affair behind me but something told me I had to stay and face the music . |
| 9 | But if you would n't tell me I had to find out the only way I could , ’ Travis explained , tightening his arms about her . |
| 10 | I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one . |
| 11 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 12 | This guy persuaded me I had to adopt that attitude in the Tests as well . |
| 13 | Vic told me I had to suffer for my art . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ My caddie told me I had to get it . ’ |
| 15 | Every time you came near me I wanted to put my arm round your waist . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ From the day Lazio offered £5.5million for me I wanted to come here . |
| 17 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 18 | There was nothing I had to tell him . |
| 19 | The school bursar , to whom I had to report the damage , was stern but not unkind . |
| 20 | In her period as shadow Minister she displayed an efficiency and a command of detail that exceeded that of any incumbent minister with whom I had to deal . |
| 21 | I recalled how sane and healthy they were , and I contrasted them with the fiends with whom I had to deal in 1816 ! |
| 22 | I knew that he would not understand what I was going to say but it was as if there was an invisible person in the carriage before whom I had to justify myself . |
| 23 | Gordon Welchman in The Hut Six Story tells an amusing yarn about the man who took over the administration of the ‘ highly intelligent female staff ’ of the Decoding Room and the Registration Room , and whom I grew to know quite well : |
| 24 | At that , some apprentices , whom I judged to have been well-primed and well-paid for their services , set up a feeble shout . |
| 25 | I passed by , and was no longer recognised by anyone ; the unknown children did not smile at me ; and I dared not ask what had become of those I had known , whom I feared to recognise in these bent men exhausted by life . |
| 26 | He was one of the original ‘ Group of Seven ’ Canadian painters , and Emily Carr , whom I came to know later , was another . |
| 27 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 28 | If I were in your place , I 'd be careful whom I picked to talk to . " |
| 29 | I started learning Catalan and reading fine modern Catalan poets , whom I intended to translate — Foix , Espriu , Bartra and many others of the emergent Catalan school whose work , and whose very language , were banned by Franco . |
| 30 | I saw quite a few artists whom I wanted to represent on the trip . |