Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I told them I 'd be safe in the hall . |
| 32 | My husband told me I ought to be getting out more , so my friend and I began to go out once a fortnight . |
| 33 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 34 | Later on , pleading a shortage of space , the reporter told me I would have no chance to answer . |
| 35 | Nick said : ‘ When doctors told me I would n't live past Christmas , my only wish was to see my sister get married . |
| 36 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
| 37 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |
| 38 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |
| 39 | No-one told me I would feel like I did . ’ |
| 40 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 41 | Last week I went to a fortune teller and she told me I would have another child even though I do n't want to . |
| 42 | The doctors told me I would never have a child of my own . |
| 43 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 44 | And when I came across people who told me I must be , at best , gullible to believe in metaphysics ( and why did n't I rejoin their random , meaningless reality ? ) , then I had invited them into my world . |
| 45 | No one in the team ever told me I must win or be faster than everyone else . |
| 46 | But something told me I must carry on , so I did , rhythmically pushing his chest , praying for a reaction . |
| 47 | ‘ You told me I must n't tell him . |
| 48 | He told me I must open your mouth . ’ |
| 49 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 50 | Marie told me I should n't leave it on when I ai n't in the room , and here I am — the first day she 's gone and I 've gone and left it on . |
| 51 | ‘ She told me I should find a rich girlfriend . |
| 52 | I made the long trip with my boys but the unit told me I should not be there . |
| 53 | ‘ Some people told me I should have told the selectors to shove it and play for my club instead , but I thought if I kept quiet and plugged away I would get my chance — but I did n't think it would come this season , ’ Andrew said . |
| 54 | A policeman told me I should pay a policeman to escort me to a taxi . ’ |
| 55 | He told me I should never use a leash . |
| 56 | ‘ The lads just told me I should put more water in my whisky , ’ he said . |
| 57 | The doctors told me I should n't talk so much . |
| 58 | As Martin stood scratching his head , one of the goblins sneaked up behind him and whispered , " Say , " He told me I should be the richest man in the world . " " |
| 59 | Something told me I should never be his … |
| 60 | I even carried out a double-bluff of appearing slightly guilty for the wrong reasons , so that adults told me I should n't blame myself because I had n't been able to warn Paul in time . |