Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you 'll all know that I 've told you the truth ! ’ he shouted . |
| 2 | ‘ Now that I 've told you the truth , you do n't need to fear . |
| 3 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 4 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 5 | Rainbow admits that I have told her the tale of the Gittel affair , and why Anya called down the curse in the first place . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 7 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 8 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 9 | ‘ And I 've told you the options , Mr Garland . |
| 10 | Erm er this o this one is not one single job as it happens but it is the kind of thing that we have come up against before and I 've put them the things together in one so that we do n't identify people really under the circumstances . |
| 11 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm being treated fairly and I want to know what the hell is going on . ’ |
| 13 | The trust my partner and I share gives us the freedom to get on and do things without stopping every ten minutes to check up on each other . |
| 14 | On 19 December 1991 the local authority made their application for an interim care order and I have said what the order was . |
| 15 | Sixty years ago C. J. Herrick , the American comparative anatomist , dubbed it the ‘ organ of civilisation ’ , and I have set myself the task of seeing how far our scientific knowledge of nerve cells might earn the neocortex this grandiose title : Would these nerve cells , as actors , be able to perform the play , ‘ Civilisation ’ ? |
| 16 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 17 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 18 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 19 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 20 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 21 | Wait until I 've shown you the fabulous coast of Jutland and taken you to the island of Fyn where I was born . |
| 22 | I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money . |
| 23 | but I 've forgotten what the teaching was . |
| 24 | Of course , it was a very nice idea , but I had seen what the Germans were doing with colour television . |
| 25 | I hold no strong views myself , but I do wonder what the lady would have done had the man produced from his bowler hat a valid membership card . |
| 26 | ‘ Bill , I 'll try , ’ I pleaded , ‘ but I have to know what the fuck is going on . ’ |
| 27 | I brought you up here because I wanted to show you the house I 've bought in Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
| 29 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 30 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |