Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My mind told me she could n't . |
| 4 | Another Land Rover main agent told me I need part number GTR III — it has a short stem and a white top . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My heart told me she would n't . |
| 8 | I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me . |
| 9 | So Mum told me she was going to leave me a bit more than she had originally planned . |
| 10 | ‘ Then my mum told me it was terrible . ’ |
| 11 | My mum told me it was nude ! |
| 12 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 13 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 14 | Another canteen worker in the same village told me she does a shift from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. , returns home to work for her family , then she 's back at the pit from 7.30 p.m. until 10.45 p.m . |
| 15 | ‘ Sam Hall told me they wanted me to stay on — but I would have to accept a lease , ’ John said . |
| 16 | One lady told me she had learnt to make garlands when she was five years old . |
| 17 | One girl told me she had even thought family planning clinics were where a woman went with her husband and children to plan their future together . |
| 18 | I decided , for example , that if a parent told me they had dreamt about having a ‘ Down 's baby ’ before the birth — in the medical literature , this is a classic after-the-event self-deception — they had in fact had such a dream . |
| 19 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 20 | My husband told me I ought to be getting out more , so my friend and I began to go out once a fortnight . |
| 21 | " That nice friend of yours who spent the week-end told me you had a lot of Oriental stuff , " Mrs. Hargreaves went on . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ My caddie told me I had to get it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The dairyman told me you hated old families . ’ |
| 24 | The racially inspired threats which Sterling told me he received after taking the title illustrated the resentment felt at a black man being a British champion . |
| 25 | ‘ Daddy told me he 's not my father . ’ |
| 26 | The counter-girl told me I 'd have to wait for the manager . |
| 27 | I did n't know daddy gave me you this film . |
| 28 | ‘ A friend lent me hers for a few weeks . |
| 29 | And the manager the un the the deputy met me he says , And I were just going down main road at nighttime as me dad were coming up . |
| 30 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |