Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as he spoke to me I felt very uneasy . |
| 2 | As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud . |
| 3 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 4 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 5 | Arrayed against me I had both the TUC-affiliated unions and the Royal College of Nursing , the professional organization representing the nurses . |
| 6 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
| 7 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |
| 8 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 9 | She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance . |
| 10 | I nodded to them , but when they looked at me I turned away quickly , for fear I should see them exchange puzzled glances . |
| 11 | But what he has told me I found rather interesting — in the circumstances , ’ he added pointedly , confirming her suspicions . |
| 12 | Do n't tell me I did wrong ? ’ |
| 13 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 14 | Some of them I had already encountered in Tanglewood Tales I and II , which I 'd read in the class library at a younger and less sexually conscious age , but the power of those stories also lay in what was only half-knowable . |
| 15 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 16 | Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity . |
| 17 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |
| 18 | His father then asked William what he should say to his school-fellows , to which the boy replied , ‘ Tell them to prepare to meet their God ; and tell them I said so ’ ’ |
| 19 | You did right chopping the Governor down and setting fire to the forum — but do n't tell them I said so . |
| 20 | Them I got there from Solo |
| 21 | I 'll just leave them I thought well there 's no real need for them to be up |
| 22 | When I got them I became more worried . |
| 23 | ‘ I tell them I tired now . |
| 24 | See the weather you see was bad if you had it bad but I I kept well in health considering you know . |
| 25 | As a as a churchgoer and a committed christian I mean I I quoted earlier on this morning from the Sun newspaper this morning which is ranting and raving this morning on the subject of erm well it claims that the the Archbishop of Canterbury er Dr Carey is saying that erm Charles could never be king of this country erm because erm he had an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles |
| 26 | I , it went through alright , but er I 've got a reminder this time so I I thought well |
| 27 | But I I thought then he 'd had a slight stroke so to make him |
| 28 | I I got really really fed up . |
| 29 | Because er my mother was fair and she must have carried it or something and then I I 'd just started I think a week of two or three weeks and my sister got it and the boys never got it . |
| 30 | I I meant yesterday but you see , cos you gave me a bag yesterday and I 've meant to bring it today , I forgot it . |