Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray . |
| 2 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 3 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 4 | This what I asked you the other week . |
| 5 | God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is . |
| 6 | and I 'm seeing the surgeon today and erm and I met somebody the other day who 'd had it done and his fingers were n't affected , you know , so I mean it 's just the luck of the draw I think . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 8 | " Yes , I met someone the other night who made a sort of suggestion about a possible job of some kind . " |
| 9 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 10 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 11 | A actually I visited somebody the other day and you just forget you just forget . |
| 12 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 13 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 14 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 15 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 16 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 17 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 18 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 19 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 20 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 21 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 22 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 23 | But I , you know , I told you the front brakes they er snapped the middle and all this . |
| 24 | ‘ I told you the same thing . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | I noted what the hon. Gentleman said in his biblical reference ; it occurred to me that he should be a little more careful when talking about St. Paul . |
| 27 | I noticed it the other day when you were round then |
| 28 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 29 | I hated it the first time . |
| 30 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |