Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] i the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
2 | Mr Ward told The Independent : ‘ Mr Rowland himself telephoned me the next day , said he was appalled at what had happened to my daughter , and gave me his direct line telephone number , saying he would be there every day from 9 to 6 . |
3 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
4 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
5 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
6 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
7 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
8 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
9 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |