Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I asked him to bring those girls here . |
| 4 | I asked you to move this lot , and you did n't ! |
| 5 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 6 | " You would n't get the wrong idea if I asked you to put that light out , would you ? " she asked . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I made myself clear this morning , Rincewind . |
| 8 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 9 | Once I met her carrying several parcels and she called to me . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 12 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I told her to cancel those flowers . ’ |
| 15 | I told her to buy this island . |
| 16 | ‘ I told her to check that seal . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat |
| 19 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
| 20 | I told you to put some orange in there . |
| 21 | I noticed nothing to suggest this insight in Frontenac 's version of the story . |
| 22 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 23 | When he was shadow Secretary of State and I challenged him to have this debate in the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs , he said , " We soon will . " |
| 24 | I ordered them to fasten all windows — much good that would do — draw the curtains , and stay out of sight . |
| 25 | I had on the programme Brahms 's Fourth Symphony and at the rehearsal Lamond said to me , ‘ You know , I knew Brahms ; I heard him conduct this piece . ’ |
| 26 | I heard him put more money into the box . |
| 27 | I heard him giving many readings , and now of course they are on record ; but I think he was at his best — with every word clearly articulated — among a small group such as that at Kelham . |
| 28 | He still spent every holiday with them , but I felt he needed more independence and so did they . |
| 29 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 30 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |