Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] i [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been happy for the last few months and when an old girlfriend asked me out I went along and enjoyed myself . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what the agent told me when I was recruited . |
| 3 | ‘ Eleanor told me how she had visited you and your mother a little while ago . ’ |
| 4 | At Milson Airport , Palmerston North , in North Island , Bruce Farquar of the Manawatu Districts Aero Club showed me how they offer not only flight training but also aerial photography and with the slogan Time is money … flying reduces costs publicise their light aircraft passenger and freight services . |
| 5 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 6 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 7 | I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else . |
| 8 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
| 9 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 10 | ‘ When Dr. Ray called me in I took the precaution of having copies of Dr. Bonnard 's and Mrs. Bonnard 's dental records sent to me by Telex . |
| 11 | " Devraux told me today he is going to Canton again soon , " he said in an excited whisper when his wife came to plunge her arms in the suds beside him . |
| 12 | ‘ My Carrie told me when I come in 'ere this mornin' , ’ Danny replied . |
| 13 | They were terrific — upset , but very sympathetic and his Mother said not to worry , if Pop threw me out she 'd look after me . |
| 14 | But , the old ones that Tom gave me originally they 've not flowered now for about three months yet they 're not dead . |
| 15 | Signor Candiano told me scarcely anything . ’ |
| 16 | A friend called me up who went to the City game , and he was raving about Leeds . |
| 17 | The food and rest gave me back my strength and I no longer felt ill . |
| 18 | My father asked me why I said these awful things . |
| 19 | One of the stories , maybe , that Maman told me when I was small . |
| 20 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 21 | When friends asked me out I had to turn them down and one or two of them stopped calling round . |
| 22 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
| 23 | Mrs Figgis-Hewett told me yesterday you were . |
| 24 | Joan Bower of the voluntary organisation Age Concern told me how her local branch takes services to its clients , rather than making them travel . |
| 25 | on crime reminds me that Bob told me only he does n't , he does n't know how much Bridget knows , so we must n't say anything to her , but he said that there is some possibility that she may get erm , I think April time she may be made what 's called Court Officer |
| 26 | Caroline told me later she was terribly nervous . |
| 27 | When Thomas Carter asked me how I liked Oxford , I made a wry face and said , ‘ Mmmm … ’ |
| 28 | In the event , the culmination of the relationship occurred when the telephone rang one day and in a suspiciously silky voice George asked me where I thought the Derby Cup was . |
| 29 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 30 | The last two guides showed me how it was done , climbing quickly and fearlessly down the face . |