Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met him somewhere south of the river , I do n't know where . |
| 2 | Josh and I planned it yesterday evening , did n't we , Josh ? |
| 3 | That gave me the chance to tell what Braden had done , sounding disgusted as I told it so Mendez would have no doubt what I thought about Braden 's trick . |
| 4 | And you can say well look I told you so dad . |
| 5 | I told you so Labour and the Lib Dems betrayed democracy , says Stephen Howe |
| 6 | I drove it both times in similar test conditions , so any change would be down to the car . |
| 7 | I enjoyed it really Marg ! |
| 8 | Even a sentence like I finished mine tomorrow morning can be contextualised so as to present itself in the guise of a jocular paradox : |
| 9 | Tom and Dick finished theirs yesterday ; Bill and Arthur finished this morning ; and I … er … well , I finished mine tomorrow morning , I promise ! |
| 10 | No , yes you do , do n't lie , I heard you yesterday morning , twelve thirty , you were talking to your assistant in the , about you put the body in my wardrobe said Jane , okay I know something , in fact I know a lot more than all of you . |
| 11 | The Principal of St John 's declared roundly that he was a lunatic — ‘ I saw him yesterday afternoon walking down the Bailey with one foot on the pavement and one foot in the gutter all the way ’ . |
| 12 | and I boiled it about quarter to five and I thought |
| 13 | I thought great , I thought , I thought everybody else sort of cringe about the way that maybe they were over power dressed . |
| 14 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 15 | It 's not as if I gave you much choice . |
| 16 | I bought it only cost be about what , I think we said er , what less than a pound each , them two ash trays |
| 17 | I volunteered it so Tetley do freeze dried tea or something . |
| 18 | Just in case this was one of them , I left my name and number , pointing out that it was the Stuart Street property and part of Nassim 's empire , which made us almost family , did n't it ? |
| 19 | Helen 's main problems since she moved into her own home have been a period of illness , which caused her much discomfort , and a spate of difficulties in accepting personal care from temporary staff . |
| 20 | The members of the Legislative Commission of 1767 received from the areas which elected them both instructions and statements of grievances : digests of these were studied by the empress and had considerable influence on her later activities , notably on the reform of provincial administration in 1775 . |
| 21 | Josephine Chandler was found half naked and bleeding after the attack , which left her permanently brain damaged and physically disabled . |
| 22 | Which if nothing else , qualifies it as more mature than those Ministry of Agriculture officials who pronounced themselves this week to be ‘ absolutely happy ’ that it should now be on sale . |
| 23 | She poured them more tea and he kept silent , anxious not to disturb her present mood . |
| 24 | She handed me Little Ben , advised me not to let Home Sister catch me leaving it so late , and took herself off . |
| 25 | ‘ She outlined her regard for the children and made the point that she showed them more attention than the Prince of Wales appeared to . ’ |
| 26 | When she opened them again Niall was still there , still a threat . |
| 27 | Middlesex , who fined him around £750 for a foul-mouthed outburst earlier in the season , immediately dropped him for the game against Hampshire . |
| 28 | She hid the cutting in the cocktail cabinet in the prop-room — if she took it home Uncle Vernon might get his hands on it and embarrass her by reading it out to the commercial travellers . |
| 29 | She saw them very week at St Saviour 's . |
| 30 | ‘ It was Sheila , I know that , who saw me yesterday afternoon . |