Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] i [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eleanor told me how she had visited you and your mother a little while ago . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | " 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ My Carrie told me when I come in 'ere this mornin' , ’ Danny replied . |
| 8 | But , the old ones that Tom gave me originally they 've not flowered now for about three months yet they 're not dead . |
| 9 | Signor Candiano told me scarcely anything . ’ |
| 10 | Mrs Figgis-Hewett told me yesterday you were . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Caroline told me later she was terribly nervous . |
| 13 | When Thomas Carter asked me how I liked Oxford , I made a wry face and said , ‘ Mmmm … ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was going to knock for I was still intrigued by him but Benjamin called me so I let the matter rest . |
| 16 | Hamer USA told me when I spoke to them that this is a custom option and not featured on the standard Sunburst models . |
| 17 | WE WERE watching the sun go down beyond Kaena Point when Michael asked me how my book on the North Shore was coming along . |
| 18 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 19 | But Margaret told me well it was years ago up at the Germany , says his wife left him . |
| 20 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |