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Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game .
2	Marion asked me other day what we were saving them for , I said well we saved them oh I remember !
3	So erm then er oh he asked me other questions .
4	They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today .
5	After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show .
6	Er , not in the decision , I I spoke to Mr and he asked me certain questions .
7	I am so glad that the hon. Member for Derby , North asked me that question —
8	He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered .
9	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 .
10	Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night .
11	‘ May I ask you what you asked me last week ?
12	A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ?
13	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 . ’
14	The British official behind his high desk asked me numerous questions which I did n't understand .
15	She , and she got me five dishcloths and five dusters .
16	He nearly got me this afternoon .
17	So Parsons got me this job and I used to sit up there and answer the phones . ’
18	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 !
19	Yeah , he got me some springs
20	My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’
21	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 .
22	Just take a look got me little list knocking round .
23	Mr Blackadder tolled me this buk is ful of jokes that are abowt as funny as getting your bottom caut in a bacon slicer .
24	‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims .
25	That made me manic depressive .
26	‘ That made me six foot seven inches tall . ’
27	trousers , boots , fucking the leggings , the gloves , the mask anything , he made me fucking walk into the sea .
28	After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss .
29	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 .
30	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 .