Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To be honest I 'd forgotten about the money until Jim Boyce reminded me , ’ said manager Frankie Parks after the 4–0 win . |
| 2 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 3 | A night at Fort William gave me a long awaited opportunity of making the ascent . |
| 4 | Cardinal Wolsey thought I knew his name . ’ |
| 5 | Ben Horridge told me himself . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That 's my first win in the race , ’ Paul said afterwards ‘ and I must say La Greine gave me a great run . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He will have the same pay and arrangements as previous presenters , ’ Radio 5 spokeswoman Judy Leighton tells me . |
| 8 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 9 | I even went out and bought a dictionary on Sixth Avenue to assist me in the project . |
| 10 | But Jim Walker told me that , despite these good developments , he was worried that the new system for community care might be underresourced . |
| 11 | In the morning Miss Temple found me asleep , with Helen Burns dead in my arms . |
| 12 | He admitted : ‘ Lawrie McMenemy took me off at half- time in Spain after I 'd been booked . |
| 13 | ‘ I was pleased that Lawrie McMenemy watched me and said good things about me , that 's another boost . |
| 14 | ‘ Miss Honey tells me that you are meant to be clever , too ! |
| 15 | I thought he had passed some inconsequential remark , but when the couple had walked on , Miss Senga informed me that the man had relayed a message from Master Patrick . |
| 16 | ‘ Is — is that why Monsieur Lemarchand wants me to go ? ’ |
| 17 | I was , I recall , leaving the drawing room with an empty teapot in my hand when Miss Kenton stopped me and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , Dr Meredith is just leaving now . ’ |
| 18 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 19 | Sometimes I wonder if I sleep too much , but my friend Cully Chatterton tells me that the need for sleep varies considerably from person to person and one must follow one 's inclination . ’ |
| 20 | ( Our big fish man Andy Parkes tells me he prefers the name Oddballs for the fish he keeps — he feels a tank buster is a fish that ‘ has to be turned round several times a day ’ — which sums up how I feel ) . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 22 | The Potter whose grandmother employed the second and third kitchenmaids in question was , M. André Simon tells me , Major Matthew Connolly ( father of Mr Cyril Connolly ) ; and with his felicitous evocation of a mid-Victorian country breakfast table and those second and third kitchenmaids pounding away at the ham and tongue for potting he makes a number of points , most relevant of which concerns the kitchenmaids . |
| 23 | Miss Eames calls me an old-fashioned word : Dunce . |
| 24 | " I know , Miss Lucchesi told me " |
| 25 | Several times Miss Havisham ordered me to bring Estella to visit her , and of course I always obeyed . |
| 26 | ‘ Miss Havisham asked me to send , ’ said Joe , as if trying to remember the exact words , ‘ her — best wishes , was it , Pip ? to Mrs J. Gargery … ‘ |
| 27 | It was cruel of Miss Havisham to encourage me to hope , but I do n't think she meant to be unkind . ’ |
| 28 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 29 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 30 | Miss Tunstall took me quietly to the hedge : |