Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 2 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 3 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 4 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 5 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 6 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 7 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
| 8 | He knew all this and he knew I knew it . |
| 9 | He then accepted this and he told me he was going to pay me the other £2,500 in Turkey in Turkish money . ’ |
| 10 | It 's good no I tell you why I thought they were crap cos you gave me an album and it had the had Dancing in the Moonlight and that was good but all the other songs on it were really shit . |
| 11 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 12 | So I went rushing round to a friend of mine who fortunately had some and I said I want to see your walking , and I was much comforted to discover that they do actually use all six legs . |
| 13 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 14 | and it was quite tasty and I thought I 'd stick it in there |
| 15 | I brought the duck I do n't want the duck so I said to her I got the duck but after good girl and she you 're alright with one thing and another and I said I told her I said I said to her when we were over there I said look , look you 're right if you like again so er warden came round |
| 16 | We put on a few and I knew I was finishing , so I thought I would try to go out with a bang by breaking the pavilion window in the Long Room . |
| 17 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 18 | She continued : ‘ I am 70 years old but I felt I must make this sacrifice for them , even though the constraints on me in the future are very great . ’ |
| 19 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 20 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 21 | He 's an older man and maybe an easier since he had me galloping the best of my horses lame over you , Owen . |
| 22 | I find I am not as pleased by this as I thought I might be . |
| 23 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 24 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 25 | ‘ I was doubtful when you told me about sharing your house with two young vets , but now I think you were right . |
| 26 | I see now why you were so evasive when I said I had n't power of attorney . ’ |
| 27 | I am a 39-year-old man weighing 11 stone and I was trying to cuddle my nine year old when she picked me up and threw me across the room . |
| 28 | I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was . |
| 29 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 30 | And it took me longer to do that than it took me to do tapestry . |