Example sentences of "me [conj] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me that before I had come to live with him he never listened to the radio for fear of hearing a song she had liked to sing or a piece of piano music she used to play . |
| 2 | After I had recovered from the anaesthetic the house officer came to tell me that while I had been anaesthetised the senior registrar had in fact examined me internally . |
| 3 | It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window . |
| 4 | It was a big disappointment to me that when I applied for the news editor 's job , I did n't get it . |
| 5 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 6 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 7 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 8 | He told me that if I kept running well , I was in with a chance . |
| 9 | She told me that if I left Roy and went home she would forgive me having Carla and everything … forgive me bringing shame on them by marrying a hoodlum . |
| 10 | He informed me that if I drank water all the time , and never wine , I should get cancer of the stomach . |
| 11 | told me that if I had the power then I |
| 12 | It never occurred to me that if I had an accident and SURVIVED , my life insurance would pay me nothing . ’ |
| 13 | Within a month the tense of the verb curdles : ‘ It seems to me that if I had been your husband , we would have been happy together . |
| 14 | I had a lesson with him and he told me that if I squeezed my knees together I would slow down my bottom half and be able to release the club as hard as I wanted to . |
| 15 | You always told me that if I worked hard , one day , I would go for Secondary . |
| 16 | He told me that if I bought this land at five pounds a dunum , he and his friend would buy it from me at twenty-five a dunum . |
| 17 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 18 | All I knew was that one afternoon while I was at the office in London someone poured petrol through my letter-box at Seaview , along with a note warning me that if I did n't get out of G.W. Fashions there would be other similarly unpleasant incidents to look forward to , and that next time the petrol would be accompanied by a lighted rag . ’ |
| 19 | He told me that if I did n't agree to marry you he 'd release that tape of his to the Press … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 21 | This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier . |
| 22 | ‘ Felipe is just angry that Mitch touched me and that I did not repulse him quickly . |
| 23 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 24 | ‘ I wo n't get a fellow , I 'm from nowhere , a decent fellow would n't be able to talk about me and where I came from . |
| 25 | ‘ He tried to stab me and and I felt something in my back between my shoulder blades . |
| 26 | The big , heavy blue door loomed before me and as I knocked I heard Mr Simons shuffling along the partially carpeted hall to greet me . |
| 27 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
| 28 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 29 | These kids was coming at us once and six of them grabbed hold of me and when I turned round all the others had fucked off and left me to get a kicking … |
| 30 | Marie was waiting for me and when I caught up with her she linked her arm in mine . |