Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 5 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 6 | They were terrific — upset , but very sympathetic and his Mother said not to worry , if Pop threw me out she 'd look after me . |
| 7 | A friend called me up who went to the City game , and he was raving about Leeds . |
| 8 | The food and rest gave me back my strength and I no longer felt ill . |
| 9 | My father asked me why I said these awful things . |
| 10 | One of the stories , maybe , that Maman told me when I was small . |
| 11 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
| 12 | Joan Bower of the voluntary organisation Age Concern told me how her local branch takes services to its clients , rather than making them travel . |
| 13 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 14 | To explain why that aspect interested me particularly I have to tell you about the Butcher . |
| 15 | It was just er you may say destiny brought me here which I never wanted to come to this place . |
| 16 | ‘ The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust told me how we could set up a clinic to register as many people as possible , ’ said Mr Griffiths . |
| 17 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 18 | So when the Sergeant-Major asked me where I hoped to be posted eventually , I told him the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes ; this did n't surprise him as most British recruits said the same thing . |
| 19 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 20 | My mother told me when I come out of prison that I 'm very paranoid . |