Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said I do n't know what the car owes me he said can you come back tomorrow about half past ten ? |
| 2 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 3 | Gabi told me he used to play along to Django Reinhardt and Count Basie records — if you wanted to hear Gabby play One O'Clock Jump then you had it , he could play all that shit . |
| 4 | I married Clive because Mummy told me he was suitable for me , and I had n't had a letter from Felipe for a long time … |
| 5 | David said : ‘ Kylie told me she wanted our romance to end because she had a lot of pressure from work — she was always very busy . ’ |
| 6 | She used to be one of that Rajneesh lot , she always lives in communes , and Linda told me she was looking for somewhere . |
| 7 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Jeff told me you promised your parents that you 'd treat them to a holiday this autumn in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary — but that now you 're starting to worry about how you 're going to pay for it . |
| 9 | My brothers told me I 'd end up killing someone . |
| 10 | Two of the survivors assured me they were among the last girls to be admitted to the trade . |
| 11 | A year ago , Norfolk Library 's local history department told me they had nothing about Edis — perhaps the most important woman photographer in East Anglia . |
| 12 | And Quinn added : ‘ Bobby told me he needs somebody to put the ball in the net . |
| 13 | My mind told me she could n't . |
| 14 | Another Land Rover main agent told me I need part number GTR III — it has a short stem and a white top . |
| 15 | Fortunately the aircraft maintained a perfect climbing attitude while I tried to sort it out , I reached for the elevator trim wheel ; one glance told me it was in the normal position . |
| 16 | She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not |
| 17 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 18 | Dana told me she had been a tougher nut for Daine to crack , and had had her mind scrambled and unscrambled several times . |
| 19 | In a rare interview , Arkan told me he did not despise Albanian people . |
| 20 | ‘ But Swod told me he transferred — from MI6 to the Security Service . |
| 21 | Mrs Dempster told me you were still asleep when she went in . ’ |
| 22 | Marie told me she 'd teach me to swim one day . |
| 23 | I was OK till Marie told me she was going away , and now I feel all sad . |
| 24 | Marie told me I should n't leave it on when I ai n't in the room , and here I am — the first day she 's gone and I 've gone and left it on . |
| 25 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 26 | The lads tell me it 's a shooting estate — likely that 's where people leave their cars . ’ |
| 27 | and reasonable voices tell me I 'll forget |
| 28 | Frankie warned me he was comin' down the street so we wheeled it into the pantry until he 'd gone . |
| 29 | Instead she said , ‘ David tells me you are also working in industry . |
| 30 | ( Our big fish man Andy Parkes tells me he prefers the name Oddballs for the fish he keeps — he feels a tank buster is a fish that ‘ has to be turned round several times a day ’ — which sums up how I feel ) . |