Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] i [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid I persuaded the woman I spoke to give me this address . |
| 2 | Everything I read , everything I hear , everything I see informs me that doubt , disease and distress in all the subtlest malignancies of their forms have at last invaded the cropped lawn and the sleepy garden wail . |
| 3 | This is , as I say , a matter which has given me much concern . |
| 4 | Another point which has given me some concern is that the present book is supposed to be a directory of Cabinet Committees . |
| 5 | The point which has struck me most ( in my myopic way ) has been the abrupt disappearance at this level , all over the world , of the atrypid brachiopods . |
| 6 | I must have lived , oh , well over ninety-five years , but when I eventually meet God I want to ask him a question which has haunted me all my life . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't ye dare call me that , ye bloody cow ! ’ he roared , half-raising his fist . |
| 8 | I want to find the answers to certain whys and wherefores which have puzzled me all my life . ’ |
| 9 | Why does everyone keep asking me these stupid questions ? ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You mean to tell me that 's what started this whole fiasco off ? |
| 11 | Well do n't you want to ask me any more questions ? |
| 12 | ‘ Now , do you want to tell me all the facts ? ’ |
| 13 | Do you want to tell me all about it ? ’ |
| 14 | Do you want to tell me more about that ? |
| 15 | " If you want to do me any favours , " I said , " maybe you could get me reinstated later , when I 'm better . |
| 16 | But on the same score I 'm afraid I must be an a narrow minded urban socialist well okay , I 've never lived in a city but if you want to call me that , fine . |
| 17 | ‘ You promised to tell me all about it . |
| 18 | ‘ Did Capron ask you straight whether you 'd given me any help ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It would have been useful if you 'd told me all this at the beginning . ’ |
| 20 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 21 | I wonder if — I wish you 'd told me that , Alan . |
| 22 | I only wish you 'd told me this earlier . |
| 23 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 24 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 25 | I told you she 'd sent me some cast-offs and they 're much too grand for me to wear . |
| 26 | She wrote as if she 'd hated me all my life . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Are n't you going to ask me any more questions ? ’ demanded Taczek with a peremptory prod at his spectacles . |
| 28 | ‘ You going to read me another story tonight , Mammy ? ’ |
| 29 | Were you going to tell me that ? |
| 30 | How are you going to get me some blood ? ’ |