Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one of the CIA 's most closely guarded secrets and I intend to keep it that way . |
| 2 | I 'm now my own man , and I intend to keep it that way . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to telephone her this morning at the flat but there was no reply . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to telephone you this morning — ’ he said . |
| 5 | I tried to call you this week-end . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to call you this morning , ’ she said , ‘ but you 'd already left . ’ |
| 7 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 8 | I tried to get it last night . |
| 9 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 10 | I tried to contact you this afternoon but was unable to get through . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not propose to argue with you , I propose to give you sixteen shillings and a halfpenny . |
| 12 | I phoned to invite you this morning , Guido , but of course you were n't there . ’ |
| 13 | Of more concern is the way Barnes has failed to silence his critics with his feet since his poor display and when asked if he will win his 69th cap next week , Taylor said simply : ‘ I want to give it some thought . ’ |
| 14 | I want to give you good answers to your questions . ’ |
| 15 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 16 | And again , long moments later , he added the qualification : ‘ Though I want to tell you one thing — I know very little about them . ’ |
| 17 | Some of the horror stories that I hear are horrendous , but I want to tell you three issues that I do actually know about . |
| 18 | What I want to show you this afternoon , is that the power of the child 's imagination is a factory which we have but to encourage , not to teach . |
| 19 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 20 | A lot of women write and say I wish I 'd met you 20 years ago . |
| 21 | ‘ If I 'd met you three years ago , ’ he told her harshly , ‘ maybe things would have been different . |
| 22 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 23 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 24 | I 'd called him Chinless Wonder on the same basis that regular enlisted men in the Army call Sandhurst graduates ‘ Ruperts ’ . |
| 25 | I 'd bought it two days before and was just trying it out ! ’ |
| 26 | I 'd bought it three minutes later . |
| 27 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 28 | The hose was where I 'd left it last summer , not neatly stored but tangled in a corner , its untidy coils covering a rake , a batch of canes and a pair of long-handled shears . |
| 29 | ‘ But I told you when I came to see you that day . |
| 30 | I say I am bored , and that I hope to see him that evening . |