Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 2 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 3 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 4 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 5 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 6 | I helped him pull the two long wicker chairs from the far end of the terrace . |
| 7 | And I told her to keep the twenty for that stuff in there . |
| 8 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 9 | I told you to keep the new ones separate . |
| 10 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 11 | I heard him question the Indian and I reached into the cat for the map which he had left on his seat . |
| 12 | This was the only time I heard anyone get the better of Wellington . |
| 13 | Yes , I heard you , yes , I heard you say the other day , and also did read in the press , where you 've been quoted , Councillor Warby , that you would build various by-passes and no doubt you will be putting , I have n't yet heard any amendments to the capital goal . |
| 14 | Right , I er , I heard you say the right answer , so I was obviously incorrect . |
| 15 | I heard someone say the other day that modern people treat the Ten Commandments like examination questions : only four need be attempted . |
| 16 | As we sat drinking sherry together and I watched her acquire the jowled ovine features of all elderly English gentlewomen , I found it hard to summon up my old anger . |
| 17 | I was in the house the night you came back , and I watched you try the french windows , and then go round to the back to find the kitchen window locked , too . |
| 18 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 19 | Imagine that somehow I knew you regarded the proposed arrangement with distaste . |
| 20 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 21 | If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ? |
| 22 | I saw him driving the other day , tell you that ? |
| 23 | I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 25 | I thought you had the best of that particular discussion . ’ |
| 26 | I thought you said the three grand as it stood without the M O T and anything |
| 27 | I thought you wanted the same approach . |
| 28 | And your father and I thought you did the right thing about David . |
| 29 | I thought you liked the good old I can have the other bit then ? |
| 30 | ‘ I thought I recognised the royal tones of the battleaxe queen . |