Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had no experience of teaching art to anyone , but the headmaster assured me that it simply involved giving the boys some paints to play with and then telling them to get on with it . |
| 32 | ‘ You 're supposed to roll your eyes and assure me that I just had the low-cal , spun-out-of-air version of — whatever all that incredible stuff was . ’ |
| 33 | She had hit a note of such deep truth in me that I just sat looking at her . |
| 34 | And it occurred to me that I neither knew how many the family owned nor how difficult mine would be to replace . |
| 35 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
| 36 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |
| 37 | ‘ It upsets me that I still have this ‘ enfant terrible ’ reputation . |
| 38 | I have also of course been very excited by the new doors that have opened up for me that I never knew existed . |
| 39 | ‘ The Test match fulfils an ambition for me that I never thought would be possible in my time , ’ he said . |
| 40 | He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like . |
| 41 | Ted Ray , one of the judges , reminded me that I now had to work out an act for ‘ The All Winners Show ’ , which happened every seventh week , a contest between the six previous show winners . |
| 42 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |
| 43 | Mrs Ross tells me that she later discovered that several years earlier near Paisley signal box two trains had collided with loss of life . |
| 44 | It should have read : ‘ I hereby confirm that prior to the execution of this document I fully explained the contents and effect thereof to [ blank space ] who seemed to me , and informed me that she perfectly understood the same . ’ |
| 45 | She has n't had any more visions but she was telling me that she sometimes has dreams . |
| 46 | Hashmat Ara Begum , a community worker in the Borough of Camden told me that she too had come across the most contemptuous attitudes among Health Visitors . |
| 47 | She told me that she actually attacked Huston and hit him because of his treatment of Monty : |
| 48 | She just come to tell me that she really wants to take him out . |
| 49 | One friend told me that he regularly got 35 m.p.g. from a petrol-engined Land Rover . ) |
| 50 | In fact , a couple of weeks ago he confided to me that he rather enjoyed losing his temper . |
| 51 | She told me that he just had time to wrap a small gift of appreciation . |
| 52 | He told me that he too had no particular worries about community care and that the provision of residential care was very good . |
| 53 | ‘ Sarah told me that he never went out without several pounds in his wallet and , in any case , he should have had the week 's housekeeping money on him . |
| 54 | One of you was talking to me at er lunchtime and telling me that he recently bought er er a C D of Dvorak 's Slavonic dances and when he played it it turned out to be some country and western music . |
| 55 | Junack told me that he personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship by placing explosive charges in the cooling water intakes and to open the seacocks , and that he and others had done this ; and this was confirmed by an engine-room rating named Werner Lust who stayed on in England after his release as a prisoner-of-war . |
| 56 | Letterman told me that he once saw Steffi Graf playing tennis at Wimbledon . |
| 57 | A few years ago a friend told me that he once started counting them . |
| 58 | Although there was an element of faking in his predictions , it seemed to me that he almost dreamed himself anew each morning . |
| 59 | So it 's pretty obvious to me that someone else used this apartment in your absence ! ’ |
| 60 | ‘ Are you telling me that you still suspect him ? ’ |