Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My brothers told me I 'd end up killing someone . |
| 3 | Two of the survivors assured me they were among the last girls to be admitted to the trade . |
| 4 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 5 | ‘ My parents gave me it on my twenty first . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 7 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 8 | Doug Mills , 49 , landlord of The Golden Ball — used as a base for the police operation — said : ‘ Customers told me he had done several tours of Northern Ireland during his service . |
| 9 | When he came back in a temper sometimes , or been drinking , Cis told me they would put Rich on the kitchen table and tell him to dance . |
| 10 | ‘ When Bonds told me they 'd succeeded in finding you , and sent me a description that tallied exactly , my first impulse was to go to England and strangle you with my bare hands . |
| 11 | Later on , my nursing studies taught me it had been a form of bubonic plague . |
| 12 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't heard of anybody , ’ he said casually , ‘ but if the lawyers asked me they might have asked somebody else before … |
| 14 | Jonas told me he had n't invited you . ’ |
| 15 | Quite apart from the violence , the girls told me it was difficult to be friendly with white girls . |
| 16 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 17 | Distraught Christine , of Bell Farm , York , said : ‘ The doctors told me he could die any minute . ’ |
| 18 | The doctors told me he was unimproved by his stay with them . |
| 19 | Nick said : ‘ When doctors told me I would n't live past Christmas , my only wish was to see my sister get married . |
| 20 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
| 21 | The 21-year-old star — plucked from children 's TV last year to host TOTP — says : ‘ The doctors told me I had a very bad case of food poisoning . ‘ |
| 22 | The doctors told me I should n't talk so much . |
| 23 | The doctors told me I would never have a child of my own . |
| 24 | When asked what the problem was , her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant , rural middle school . |
| 25 | ‘ The teachers told me he 'd let the clots in with the cream . ’ |
| 26 | A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament . |
| 27 | I could not speak to anyone , but when the bridge players saw me they threw down their cards and jumped up from the table . |
| 28 | ‘ When the police told me I just cried . |
| 29 | ‘ The police told me you were here . |
| 30 | It was no great shock , therefore , when around the time of my nineteenth birthday , the police informed me she was in hospital again . |