Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 3 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
| 4 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 5 | I asked him to bring those girls here . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you suggesting I asked him to play slow music ? ’ she shot back , outraged . |
| 7 | I asked you to move this lot , and you did n't ! |
| 8 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 9 | She said , well , she said , I asked you to take four people home and you said , No I 'm sorry . |
| 10 | " You would n't get the wrong idea if I asked you to put that light out , would you ? " she asked . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I made myself clear this morning , Rincewind . |
| 12 | He stood up while we watched and I realized he had magnificent horns , far longer than any I had yet seen . |
| 13 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 14 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 15 | Once I met her carrying several parcels and she called to me . |
| 16 | This contrasts sadly with the experience of an elderly woman I met who suffered three bereavements in quick succession . |
| 17 | The artist who did my album cover used an airbrush and I got him to do three guitars for me . |
| 18 | It was not entirely by chance that soon afterwards I found myself discussing historic family houses in central London with my 90-year-old friend Monsignor Gilbey . |
| 19 | As he talked , he faded into an outline and I found myself beating folded wings and saying , Oh , quack quack quack quack . |
| 20 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 21 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 22 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 23 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 24 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 25 | So that 's variance of reproductive er success and I mentioned I think last week , I anyway , the most extreme examples of this which is elephant seals where in once again a similar population to this , a closely studied population in California , five percent of the males were found to account for ninety five percent of the offspring in one season . |
| 26 | I told her to cancel those flowers . ’ |
| 27 | I told her to buy this island . |
| 28 | ‘ I told her to check that seal . ’ |
| 29 | I told her to forget bloody implants , what would her babies think ? |
| 30 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |