Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] i [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yet no-one thinks to ask me about this . |
| 2 | No-one has set me above this people . |
| 3 | Erm I mean tell me in more depth how it works |
| 4 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 5 | And I think sent me on that course you know . |
| 6 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 7 | The reply , which has mystified me until this day , was , ‘ Oh ! we did n't know you meant that one ! ’ |
| 8 | and you mean to tell me with all that equipment the machine that they 've got at the college , you could n't get it done there ? |
| 9 | ‘ And why would you want to take me to this auction ? |
| 10 | Board masters are guests with years of experience of Scourie fishings , and my favourite is a wonderful gentleman called Stanley Tuer ; a man of advancing years , but fleet of foot , who has exhausted me on many a long hill walk . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
| 12 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 13 | None has led me to that dangerous conclusion that we were doing it better over there than here . |
| 14 | I suppose if you 'd asked me before all this happened , I 'd have said I 'd give in , but I was so angry . |
| 15 | How many men are you going to give me for this work ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Why would you have told me in any case ? |
| 18 | ‘ Why should you bother to remember me at all — except unpleasantly ? ’ she murmured . |
| 19 | But no , this ai n't Alvin Stardust , and anyone who tries to lump me with these people gets the wrath of Harley straight on their head . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What do you mean to do , ’ demanded Harry , looking fiercely up at him from under drawn brows , ‘ now that you 've tricked me into this betrayal ? |
| 21 | ‘ It 's like so many things you 've told me about these murders , robberies and the rape . |
| 22 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 23 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 24 | If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose , ’ he said wearily , ‘ you wish to question me about that ? ’ |
| 26 | Anybody wishing if anybody wishes to ring me anyone I 'm not I 'm not you see I do n't see that serves any purpose I 'm sorry I do not think that serves any purpose if you wish to ring me outside this meeting |
| 27 | ‘ Why have you come to tell me about this , Christine ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What were you trying to teach me in this Lord ? ’ |
| 29 | I met some now very loyal friends who have seen me through these last three and a half years . |
| 30 | ‘ And what right do you think you have to assault me like this ? ’ |