Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This what I asked you the other week . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 9 | I noticed it the other day when you were round then |
| 10 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 11 | I warned you the other night , me and you gon na fall out if you keep being cheeky . |
| 12 | Erm I recorded it the other day and I did n't even know . |
| 13 | I called you the Bony Lady . |
| 14 | He paused a moment and then added , " You know , Sara , I meant it the other evening when I said you could ride whenever you want . |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , I know where Flaxperson is , I saw her the other day . |
| 16 | I saw her the other day . |
| 17 | I saw him the other day and he said ah yo , have you , not leaking yet is it from that radiator ? |
| 18 | er goggle eyes at the Co-op , I saw him the other week |
| 19 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 20 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 21 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 22 | ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying . |
| 23 | And it was it was so nicely written I I saw it the other day it was no difference . |
| 24 | ‘ I saw you the other evening , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 26 | I gave her the bare outline of your problem , Leonora — it was necessary to explain why I wanted an X-ray in a hurry . |
| 27 | I gave him the standard treatment and told him to come back immediately if he did n't get better . ’ |
| 28 | I gave him the bad news without preamble . |
| 29 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 30 | Is the way you go about a task exactly the same as that one I gave you the other day . |