Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So erm then er oh he asked me other questions . |
| 2 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 3 | Er , not in the decision , I I spoke to Mr and he asked me certain questions . |
| 4 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 5 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 6 | The British official behind his high desk asked me numerous questions which I did n't understand . |
| 7 | She , and she got me five dishcloths and five dusters . |
| 8 | So he got me last nights , we 're gon na have to go tomorrow so we 'll have to go tonight now , got ta tell ! |
| 9 | Yeah , he got me some springs |
| 10 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 11 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 12 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
| 13 | Mm used me two times table . |
| 14 | ‘ You promised me some cigarettes , Mrs Dawson . ’ |
| 15 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 16 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 17 | Oh , I can pay cash , changed me some dollars right in the airport … ’ |
| 18 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 19 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 20 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 21 | And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it . |
| 22 | It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’ |
| 23 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 24 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 25 | Dr Kepepwe assured me active steps were being taken to trace those who had been intimate with me during the ten blank years : my parents , my academic colleagues . |
| 26 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 27 | My third bus dropped me two streets away from home , which gave me a chance to call in at the local florist 's and buy a twenty-quid bouquet on PKB 's Amex card . |
| 28 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 29 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 30 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |