Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Did n't want to talk to me , so I told her she 'd have to wait . ’ |
| 32 | By that time they were bad , so I told her I thought I was having a miscarriage . |
| 33 | I knew my family would not like my going , so I told them I was going walking in Austria . |
| 34 | ‘ The guy tried to trip me up , so I told him what I thought . |
| 35 | He said he was a Bill Francis , so I told him we had a General Francis talking to Mum in the sitting-room , and he seemed ever so surprised ! |
| 36 | ‘ So I told him it was over . |
| 37 | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him , so I told him his English was very good . |
| 38 | Understandably , he was curious as to the reason for my enquiries , so I told him you were a distant relative , a spinster who had no other relatives and who might wish to get in touch with him . |
| 39 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 40 | I 've never been very good at rejecting people , so I told him I was frigid . |
| 41 | This was very promising indeed and Paul , the breeder , sounded like a really nice , caring sort of chap , so I told him I was very interested , and would call with a definite answer in a few days . |
| 42 | I 'd used dikes , DFs and things like that before , so I knew what I was getting into . |
| 43 | ‘ I had worked in recruitment so I knew what I was in for : it can be a nightmare . ’ |
| 44 | I went on the road when I was 19 , I needed to come off the road so I knew who I was . |
| 45 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 46 | An unusual bird flew past , so I asked what it was — and an inner voice told me . |
| 47 | Major Mills has a hand on my knee , so I tell him I am furious . |
| 48 | He wonders why I 'm not caddying for Arnold Palmer , so I tell him there 's been a mix-up and he takes me on . |
| 49 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
| 50 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 51 | Okay , now so I think what one may have to say it depends on the species and the circumstance . |
| 52 | ‘ Those people at the MOD have n't played fair with us , so I owe them nothing . ’ |
| 53 | But there was not time to prepare this seminar , so I gave it myself , with one of my graduate students repeating my words . |
| 54 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 55 | ‘ Once I know what I 'm committed to . ’ |
| 56 | As Larry Speakes , the president 's press spokesman , put it , ‘ I always had the impression that … as ( Ollie ) flew across the country he could visualize a camera on him , and although nobody knew who he was and his mission was secret , the whole thing was being made into a movie . ’ |
| 57 | I think you 'd like to watch nothing at all 'cause you have what you want on every day . |
| 58 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 59 | ‘ Although she told me she can only ring when her daddy is out as he does n't like animals … |
| 60 | Although she told him she had nothing to say which might help , he was very persistent . |