Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] i [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they tried to take me away he explained , politely , that he was staying with me . |
| 2 | When your mother , good woman that she is , came to see me yesterday I was not shocked to hear what she had to say . |
| 3 | The mysterious Fox — I was more certain than ever that he was Special Branch now — that wretched young woman lying there in the mortuary , and I remembered my unease when she 'd told me how she had returned that file at the Records Office . |
| 4 | And then I got all the she 'd mis-changed me so I had to go back and get it . |
| 5 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 6 | Then , when she began to tell me how it happened , and what you 'd told her , about Gittel and the curse , the scales fell from my eyes . |
| 7 | Frank came up to me and started telling me how I should run it . |
| 8 | Their pompous promises and grandiloquent phrases failed to convince me so I quickly took the air in the graveyard where all the wolfs-heads , villains and counterfeit men hid from the law . |
| 9 | Assistant manager Eddie Stein , who had taken temporary control , said : ‘ The chairman did ask me how I felt about Barry possibly coming back earlier this week and I told him I 'd welcome him with open arms . |
| 10 | had let me down I 'd have gone over everyone 's head and rung Matron 's flat . |
| 11 | ‘ If anyone had told me when we were getting ready to meet Dublin — more in hope than confidence , it must be admitted — that in the early Nineties two Ulster teams would win the All Ireland and another would be in the final I would have laughed at them , ’ says Jimmy . |
| 12 | ‘ If anyone had told me when I took over in November that we would be in the Irish Cup semi-final , I would n't have believed it . |
| 13 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 14 | Sir Henry had told me how he gave his old clothes to Barrymore . |
| 15 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 16 | Mrs Singh agreed to tell me when she heard from the doctor . |