Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Mrs Singh agreed to tell me when she heard from the doctor . |