Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met him six years ago , as I was going through my divorce , ’ Miss Dale said yesterday . |
| 2 | You 've changed a lot since I met you those years ago . |
| 3 | Well I did a quick trip to our Arthur 's cos I lent him some money today . |
| 4 | ‘ I make it eighty fathoms here , sir . |
| 5 | This was all very necessary , but I found it dull stuff indeed after the immediacy of Ultra . |
| 6 | I told you we tal I talked , I , I disturbed her all day long . |
| 7 | I seen them this morning so tell Mr |
| 8 | So she goes , I want it first thing tomorrow morning , and I mean like this is talking like , we 're talking major here ! |
| 9 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 10 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 11 | Oh well , I told you another time then ! |
| 12 | Aye , and er you see I used to go over , I used to go over on a Sunday , when they came , if you , on the er well you see as I told you this chap here . |
| 13 | I think I told you some months ago that I would be asking you to consider that |
| 14 | ‘ I told you some time ago I 'd seen wor young 'un with a piece . |
| 15 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 16 | I 'm also changing the Description to read ‘ NATO — The great Hack ’ — I show you this trick only to emphasize the control you have over Windows ; not so you can sneak onto a friend 's PC and swap all their icons around ! |
| 17 | " I 've been quite worried about you — you have n't been looking well lately , I noticed it this evening particularly when you dropped in . " |
| 18 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
| 19 | I give you one bio-day exactly to make contact with me and give me your answer . ’ |
| 20 | But I know me own daughter well enough to know that she does n't want to lock herself inside a convent for the rest of her life . |
| 21 | I tell you this sister only that you may be warned and not endanger your dear son 's health or put your husband to an unnecessary and useless journey . |
| 22 | ‘ I followed him some way behind . ’ |
| 23 | On Tuesday the eighth of February as I understand it that meeting then will report to a Council meeting of the Council , so I would not wish to put forward the suggested resolutions that are on the order paper , er I think I would want to suggest to you ladies and gentlemen for decisions today to whether you wish or not and then I would suggest that the appropriate decision is to await the of the City additional Council and therefore bring this matter forward to our Committee on March the twenty ninth . |
| 24 | " They may be familiar with the paintings of Whistler , or perhaps with Whistler 's statement that when evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry , as with a veil , and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky , and the tall chimneys become campanili , and the warehouses are palaces in the night , and the whole city hangs in the heavens , and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home , and Nature , who , for once , has sung in tune , sings her exquisite song to the artist alone , her son and her master — her son , in that he loves her , her master in that he knows her ? " … shall I read you that deposition again , Mrs James ? " |
| 25 | ‘ I lost him three days ago and — ‘ |
| 26 | And I saw him five minutes later eating sandwiches — posting them , Breeze , like letters in a pillar-box ! ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , I saw it last week here as well ! lo , lot shorter otherwise he 'll be complaining his ears are growing too high ! |
| 28 | I brought him two days later and he saw you . |
| 29 | I sang it all day long ! |
| 30 | I gave you two pounds yesterday . ’ |