Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter .
2 Nevertheless I always accepted with gratitude the milk which the shepherd offered me , as the expression of his love , but since , being pure spirit , I do not need the milk , I shared it with this little fox , who is very fond of milk . "
3 I got him with that last shot . ’
4 ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs .
5 I used them on many rainy days , and never once suffered from wet feet .
6 The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain .
7 That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf .
8 Well , this , I told you about this French boy that phoned , that contacted me , he 's erm , my name is , I 'm nineteen , I 'm a student at Harlow College , I 'm studying English foreign language and Law A Level , if there 's an Amnesty International I would like to set up a group in the college I hope you 're involved in local groups are writing you to receive about me , and information about the local group .
9 I buried him in that beautiful valley of winding waters .
10 Then I asked her , I could n't help it , I asked her , I said ‘ Never mind the photocopy , ’ I said , ‘ Let me ask you , was the cock tracing I showed you in any slight way arousing ?
11 I followed them at all three , but if The Valley was a 100 miles away , I 'd still be back . ’
12 But then — in view of the fact that you already had a boyfriend — I acquitted her of any devious motives . ’
13 ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman .
14 ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says .
15 so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah
16 I dressed him in this huge pink shirt with maroon spots on , with a big maroon and pink ruff and little knee britches in grey with red velvet stripes on them .
17 Now Sunday when I had her about that terrific barking , your father was the first to say , look she stopped it
18 One year new chain and I had it in that little on the tree ?
19 I had it in eighty one , twenty years so another ten years .
20 And er then I left them in forty six and went back to me first love , and er it was a little self contained union .
21 I mourned it for two whole days when it died . ’
22 I backed it with thirty three to one is that it ?
23 After some wandering among nurseless cradles I recognized him by some unsuspected instinct — a pallid moustached old baby .
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