Example sentences of "[subord] i tell [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I disliked these two intensely and did n't like being told off for being rude to them , so I told her peevishly that I was n't staying while they were there and kicked off the slippers , put on my clogs and ran out banging the door behind me . |
| 2 | Alice thought : what if I told them now ? |
| 3 | Erm I do n't know if I told you before , I hated any sort of games . |
| 4 | If I told you now that we needed another five gangs of floor tilers or whatever it was which you had n't got enough of , it wo n't be floor tilers something you have n't got enough of , everything , could you get them by Monday ? |
| 5 | How would you feel if I told you there was a girl going to have a child of mine — some other girl , some stranger ? |
| 6 | ‘ But I expect Thorkel and Hlodver and Odalric to stay where they are and look after my interests until I tell them otherwise . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We talked about it , ’ said Jenny , ‘ because I told him frankly that I was in love with Jamie , and he looked at me as if I needed my head examined ! ’ |
| 8 | They 're always surprised when I tell them there is no bread being baked , but that at one time the room below was a kitchen . |
| 9 | ‘ When I told you earlier that Alan Dysart had once worked for me , you seemed … surprised . |
| 10 | That gave me the chance to tell what Braden had done , sounding disgusted as I told it so Mendez would have no doubt what I thought about Braden 's trick . |
| 11 | ‘ As I told you before , I do n't know these people the way you do . |
| 12 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 13 | Penny , tuppence , three ha'penny returns and every denomination of tickets was recorded so that you so showed the erm number of tickets , erm it was possible for a at the end of the week to record what the takings were , per route and the mileage and so , as I told you before , the mileage played a great importance in that you were able to say how much that route was producing per mile run and the erm , in those days it , the erm the receipts worked out , daily receipts , weekly receipts and the progressive total in that year , were always published by the Ipswich Evening Star , round about Tuesday or Wednesday and if you missed them , there 'd be somebo member of the public ringing up to why , answer why you had n't put it in , it was , you know , looked upon then you were , were public transport and the public team that you belonged to them . |
| 14 | But as i told you before , when the council started preparing for Hitler , in when I went on the council work in nineteen thirty six I had to fill the ditches in there . |
| 15 | The ratking is self-regulating , as I told you before . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , well , as I told you before , it 's not a nice war . |
| 17 | Erm as I told you before , the original er conformation of the house was that that the cooked food was brought through that door through the screened door and into here as you see . |
| 18 | As I told you once , we all make mistakes in our youth . |
| 19 | But I was comfortable in it , ever a creature of habit as I told you earlier . |
| 20 | As I told you earlier , he spends most of his time in Hong Kong , where his major interests are . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , as I told you yesterday , Chief Superintendent , there 's nothing in the safe . |
| 22 | And of course , as I told you long ago , you are beautiful , and I like the looks I get from other men when I 'm with a beautiful woman . ’ |
| 23 | See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’ |
| 24 | True it is that Ewan Beg thought he had killed his dallta — for I told him so . |