Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you suggesting I asked him to play slow music ? ’ she shot back , outraged . |
| 3 | I asked you to move this lot , and you did n't ! |
| 4 | " You would n't get the wrong idea if I asked you to put that light out , would you ? " she asked . |
| 5 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 6 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 7 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 8 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I told her to buy this island . |
| 12 | ‘ I told her to check that seal . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I told you to put some orange in there . |
| 16 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . " |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | I heard him put more money into the box . |
| 20 | Though it was when I heard her using bad language to my housekeeper and being unwarrantedly rude to Ivo that I decided I 'd had enough of the woman . ’ |
| 21 | He still spent every holiday with them , but I felt he needed more independence and so did they . |
| 22 | I felt I had good cause . |
| 23 | Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me … |
| 24 | ‘ I felt you disapproved last night , ’ he said . |
| 25 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 26 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 27 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
| 28 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 29 | And I knew I know this bloke eh , when he was a sergeant I think , anyway he was an officer , and eh , said we go to Sheppeards , I said you silly devil I ca n't get into Sheppeards Hotel I 'm a signal man I had to laugh he said , shame , he said cor , you 're about my size , get stuck into one of my uniforms we had a couple of weekends at Sheppeards Hotel , we had a great time . |
| 30 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |