Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 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 | Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | ‘ Exactly as he phoned me last night , and told me to come to the wedding . ’ |
| 5 | Well he phoned me last night and he 's going to phone me again on Sunday afternoon , we get on so well , Brenda I can just the imagine the pair of us tucked up into a four foot bed ! |
| 6 | He phoned me last night at home and I said you got your message then ? |
| 7 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 8 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 9 | My Nan told me last night . ’ |
| 10 | Do you know what he told me last night ? |
| 11 | Wright , an affable New Zealander , told me last night : ‘ There are loads of reasons for my going , but the main one is the state of the modern game . |
| 12 | Senior South African official Ali Bacher told me last night : ‘ We are concerned about Allan , but he is entitled to earn a living wherever he can . |
| 13 | An informed insider told me last night : ‘ It is absolutely certain that Nigel has done the deal . |
| 14 | ‘ My dearest David — although I do n't have the faintest idea why I should still call you this after what you told me last night — I 've had a long think . |
| 15 | ‘ No , nor could her father — or so Mandeville told me last night after you had retired . |
| 16 | A leading textile and clothing employer told me last night that if we implemented the social clause it could cost thousands of jobs within his company . |
| 17 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 18 | They told me last night that he had been arrested . |
| 19 | You probably told me last night but I ca n't remember , I was just off |
| 20 | ‘ Her cousin Frances telephoned me last night . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you quite sure , ’ he said , ‘ that nobody telephoned me last night ? ’ |
| 22 | Now I believe that someone — something — telephoned me last night . |
| 23 | She showed me last night when I was fucking her salami ! |
| 24 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 25 | He rang me last night , very kindly , principally I think to assure me that there could be no doubt . |
| 26 | ‘ Your grandmother rang me last night . |
| 27 | Peter saw me last night after you 'd left . |
| 28 | ‘ She bit me last night , ’ he said , dragging up his trouser-leg and showing her the line of tiny red marks . |
| 29 | But the thing that fascinated me last night was the statistic about Gillette do you know they said when Gillette started When Gillette started doing the erm Gillette Cup , it cost them five thousand a year . |
| 30 | My pal Pinkie Blenkinsop took me one night to ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |