Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] i [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 2 | ‘ My heart tells me we need look no further than him . ’ |
| 3 | My head tells me it 's good ; my heart tells me I 'd happily never hear it again . |
| 4 | My heart told me she would n't . |
| 5 | My notes told me what was to happen next , but my brain no longer knew how to move plot and people forward . |
| 6 | I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me . |
| 7 | ‘ Then my mum told me it was terrible . ’ |
| 8 | My mum told me it was nude ! |
| 9 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 10 | My mind told me she could n't . |
| 11 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 12 | My brothers told me I 'd end up killing someone . |
| 13 | ‘ My parents gave me it on my twenty first . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ In the second week , I knew what I wanted from the allowed foods , my body told me what I needed . |
| 15 | ‘ My husband tells me everything , Harry . |
| 16 | My husband told me I ought to be getting out more , so my friend and I began to go out once a fortnight . |
| 17 | My nose told me there was a problem . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ My caddie told me I had to get it . ’ |
| 19 | But my Bible tells me he gave me the power to receive him and to become . |
| 20 | ‘ My amah told me you left in a hurry after a phone call from a man ! ’ |
| 21 | My head tells me it 's good ; my heart tells me I 'd happily never hear it again . |
| 22 | A note flies over my wall telling me there 's no fleet on the way : I 'm not going to believe it . |
| 23 | We noticed a tall , dark , very fashionable lady , and my friend told me who she was . |
| 24 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 25 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 26 | A good War , with all the right ingredients and a more spectacular ending than most ( I even had my father asking me what all the explosions and the fire had been about , when I got back to the house that evening ) , but too long ago . |
| 27 | My people tell me you 're a genius . |
| 28 | Besides , I want to protect the remains of my privacy ; I do n't want to appear cold-hearted or stubborn ; but I know that when I try to make my life give me its answers to how I have come to my current concerns , I ca n't do it without feeling that I am on the edge of a dangerous fiction of self-description . |
| 29 | ‘ My daughter told me she 'd spilt nail varnish on my new bedroom carpet . ’ |
| 30 | My uncle told me you were beautiful , but he did not tell me how beautiful . ’ |