Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Oh Mum I told you about that . |
2 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
3 | Right so , David I reminded you about that letter , when are you gon na bring it |
4 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
5 | After some wandering among nurseless cradles I recognized him by some unsuspected instinct — a pallid moustached old baby . |
6 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
7 | ‘ It was over the night I accompanied you to that dinner and backed up your story . |
8 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
9 | Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe . |
10 | That 's the reason I wanted you on this . ’ |
11 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
12 | A few months after the aggravation I started her on Kali carb. 0/1 , progressing through 0/6. with steady amelioration , increasing energy and emotional well-being . |
13 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
14 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
15 | We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’ |
16 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
17 | This incident has since been described , by the tabloid whose lurid prose I regaled you with earlier , as ‘ a pitiless and cynical coup de grâce ’ . |