Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I said to my husband when I was pregnant , what if I have a handicapped baby ? |
| 2 | They realise that their route to the Community can be opened only if their countries are practising real democracy in respect of human rights , and multi-party Parliaments — although I said to my Polish friends , ’ You can go a bit too far . ’ |
| 3 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 4 | Although I called to my father , he took no notice , appearing totally absorbed in his conversation with the white-faced man . |
| 5 | He said we should meet for lunch so I went to his office . |
| 6 | I was all alone in my flat , so I crawled to my phone and rung a friend to beg for help . |
| 7 | Then she asked if I would knit some for other mothers , so I agreed to her putting my name on her notice board . |
| 8 | I thought they all be brilliant , but they were utter shite , so I thought to myself : ‘ There 's a great talent here just waiting to be discovered ! ’ ’ |
| 9 | I prodded the inert soldier , but he seemed pretty dead so I got to my feet and moved slowly and quietly away from the noise and excitement . |
| 10 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So I said to him , ’ said John , ‘ do me a favour and go back to America and give the Red Indians home rule . ’ |
| 13 | I got down there just now so I said to him |
| 14 | He was older so I listened to him , so I 'd shoplift all these things and give them to him . ’ |
| 15 | I am not able to eat and talk at the same time , so I apologized to my neighbours for this . |
| 16 | ‘ I was told he was interested so I wrote to him asking for advice on my career . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’ |
| 18 | I also wanted to see Mussolini , who was coming to Trieste on an official visit , so I wrote to my godmother 's sister , Poldka , who lived there , to ask if she could put me up . |
| 19 | ‘ So I shouted to them to shut up . |
| 20 | With that he dashed off on business , so I turned to his mother , who was seated at a table serving customers , a delicate loop of chain attached to her spectacles . |
| 21 | Good intentions , of course , are said to pave the way to hell , but one must , like Edward Teller , be optimistic , so I turned to it ( 9 February ) to watch the rubbing together of two creative intellects , those of John Berger and Susan Sontag who were to discuss/argue/disagree about storytelling . |
| 22 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 23 | I 'm kind of partial to Teles , so I talked to him about making a Tele version . |
| 24 | But our complicity in taking those dreadful little uppers , of which I thoroughly disapproved , as I do of all narcotic stimulants , drew us closer together , so I submitted to their influence . |
| 25 | My former wife disliked not only the taste of it herself but refused to come near me if I succumbed to its temptation . ’ |
| 26 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 27 | Says Rick , who lost the limb eight years ago : ‘ If I said to somebody : ‘ Put your hand where you think mine is ’ , they could actually feel it . ’ |
| 28 | If I said to you , ‘ I saw a chair going down the road yesterday and … ’ you would interrupt and say , ‘ That belongs to Mr So-and-So , 316 Carphalute Quadrant North , Lesmahagow , AND his dog has the croup , and last year he lost his … ‘ ’ |
| 29 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 30 | What where are you I 've missed that actually the the quite interesting just to briefly ask you about th erm When we s when I saw you last time , you were telling me something about actually erm a bit about yourself how what kind of person actually saying , you know , personality , what kind of things Wh how would you actually describe yourself ? say if I said to you , Erm what kind of person are you ? |