Example sentences of "i [vb past] to [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you will only accept the offer of payment I made to you earlier , then the rest of the debt will be paid very shortly . ’ |
| 2 | Then I got to my formerly fave section , the Rrap , but who 's this ? |
| 3 | I tried to I probably made myself a bit of a nuisance when I came in last time but , |
| 4 | The recommendations in paragraph ten er ask you to approve the capital programme and the revenue budget and the staffing for the committee and that , that 's the increase of the one post I mean I referred to you earlier and if the committee approves this budget , will put forward to the Policy and Resources Committee on the thirty first of January which will consolidate the budgets for all the er services and make final decisions on how that 's to be and reset for the next . |
| 5 | The real point of this story is that , so far as I know , Eliot never read the Hardy Preface , because when I referred to it again about twenty-five years later , he gave the impression of not knowing about it . |
| 6 | ‘ Shannon , I 'd like you to meet the man I mentioned to you earlier , Josh Thayer , and this is Marianne McCall , our leading lady . ’ |
| 7 | As I mentioned to you yesterday , those bastards are going to attack us , or we shall be attacking them tomorrow , certainly on the following day . ’ |
| 8 | The other metal which I mentioned to you before which is the traditional method for etching is copper , copper plate . |
| 9 | But notice that I 'm pouring slowly and gently away from me into the dish which I shall then put in here , and I 'm going to put the the plate , which I described to you before , which has been covered with what 's on the back ? |
| 10 | One advantage of the appalling route was that it offered no temptation to diverge from it — since I could not see where I was going anyway , the only thing to do was to follow the compass , and I had waded ditches as I came to them instead of attempting to find easier crossing places . |
| 11 | ‘ I came to it so strangely with Tom . |
| 12 | I replied to her immediately . |
| 13 | I prayed to him furiously in the van when I thought I was going to die ( that 's a proof against , I can hear G.P. saying ) . |
| 14 | I 'm sorry I lied to you yesterday . ’ |
| 15 | Du n no , I talked to him yesterday . |
| 16 | I talked to her mostly — about Georgian furniture . |
| 17 | The chap was furious and said he 'd put me in a cell without anyone on either side of me if I talked to you again . ’ |
| 18 | And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 19 | Well , so there you are and I told them , he he said that he wanted erm a urine sample you see and so of course when the nurse come after he 'd gone , later and I kept waiting and I thought to myself well I want to know the result ! |
| 20 | So er I I thought to myself well I du n no , I du n no all these Newton girls have been off to Sri Lanka or or , or Zaire or wherever and you 'd you know , is n't that great ? |
| 21 | Cos I thought to myself well I 'll never remember the make of car . |
| 22 | I thought to myself well if I do n't write it down now cos that 's why I got back in my car . |
| 23 | She did , I 'd never forget it as long as I live , I thought to myself well you stupid cow , all she could think of was a fifty pence key , so I , I said to them , I said to the girls I 'm glad to be out but of course when they all went cos there was Lynda and all the girls from customer service that were kicked out and all of us that were there and they all said oh we 've got ta go back to work and we said oh ai n't that a shame you know , and we all went |
| 24 | I thought to myself well yo if Laura had a house and then thought Pete was in that in that position , I 'd of helped him . |
| 25 | But , I thought to myself well that 's up to him how he li , he , he lives his life . |
| 26 | I thought to myself well why the devil does n't he put it over the other side . |
| 27 | I 've I , when I heard you saying you recognized his voice I thought to myself well perhaps he 's sort of inviting you to er , whatever ! |
| 28 | I mean if it , if it I mean originally he said to me it was part time so I thought to myself well that 'll be perfect , just get her back into the flow again . |
| 29 | . Well I put my washing out and I thought to myself right , today . |
| 30 | Oh they were kicking up an awful fuss and I thought to myself now a cat 's tearing one to pieces , that 's the way it , what it sounded like , or two and they were , I could n't see quite out of the window but they were making a fuss on the wall by Diane 's |