Example sentences of "i [vb past] to [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Are you seriously telling me that you thought I proposed to you this morning ? |
2 | I 'd just make the simple point that a sudden twelve point five percent reduction , I referred to it this morning , er in in building , is not progressively and long term , it 's a sudden change . |
3 | Erm , because of the Nathan reports , I mentioned to you last year , we 're going to have to raise more money than we thought sometime ago . |
4 | ‘ I spoke to him this morning . ’ |
5 | I spoke to him last night as well . |
6 | ‘ I spoke to him last month and he was laughing about it . ’ |
7 | So I said , well come on you 've got ta be reasonable with me so I spoke to him last week and he says , look you did n't have one last year so I 'll give you two . |
8 | I honestly do n't know , when I spoke to her this morning she said she has n't erm for a , for a few weeks now she has n't placed anybody |
9 | ‘ You 're cross because I was honest when I spoke to you that night . |
10 | I was wrong ( in the way I spoke to you last night ) . |
11 | and I said to her one night , and we bought those bags of sweets , it was ninety nine pee for about forty |
12 | That were first thing I said to her this morning , I says d' ya ask |
13 | Then she turned round and she said , I said to her those beds are soaking , I said . |
14 | He just was in there doing something the children went out and he said I said to him good morning , he said good morning . |
15 | So erm anyway goes in , I said to him other day , I asked him other week , he says our turn to give me a ring |
16 | I said to him one day . |
17 | ‘ You 're losing your hair , Will , ’ I said to him one day . |
18 | er , now he does n't like to talk about it you see , and I said to him one day look Paul for god sake , oh , he 'll tell his mum , but he does n't like to talk about it to me |
19 | Well like I said to him that milk round |
20 | So I said to him well mammy wants a freezer he said oh shut your mouth I 'm not getting you one . |
21 | ‘ If I said to Robert once , I said to him fifty times , ’ his great-uncle was grumbling . |
22 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
23 | And I said to him last night |
24 | I said to him this morning I said what sick joke 's this ? |
25 | What as as I said to you twenty percent of the messages a word sounds the same . |
26 | I would like you all to try to remember the stages of the process because you 're going to have to do , as I said to you last lesson , a small write up on this in order to get your unit of accreditation for this work . |
27 | cos I said to you last time , I said fucking , that was close were n't it ? |
28 | I wrote to him some years ago for some gardening advice , and had a very nice and helpful letter back . |
29 | One test , for example , that I suggested to you last week which would have surprised Freud , is by contention the children who were overwhelmed with parental investment , particularly by perhaps the parent of the opposite sex , should n't show much oedipal behaviour . |