Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I asked him earlier today why he collected butterflies . |
| 2 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 3 | I made you live again and I wanted to know there was more than mere excitement for you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Here , I got you these too . ’ |
| 5 | I got you some so ! |
| 6 | Yes I got it right here . |
| 7 | I got it wrong anyway . |
| 8 | Oh I got it wrong then if |
| 9 | ‘ I found him all alone in the busy streets of Liverpool , ’ Mr Earnshaw explained to them , ‘ and I could n't leave him to die . |
| 10 | I found her flat quite easily . |
| 11 | In any case , I found her far too pretty , both in repose and in action ( or acting ) , to care . |
| 12 | I found it all very boring , especially when I got older , but kept my thoughts to myself . |
| 13 | The guys would chat me up , y'know , like — [ imitating an African accent ] ‘ I want you to be my wife ’ — and I found it all really flattering . |
| 14 | I found it all deeply depressing . |
| 15 | I found it hard therefore to understand why she should act so far outside her own political ideology . |
| 16 | Goddess , Goddess , I seen it all now , I truly have . |
| 17 | Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through . |
| 18 | what your doing , your just , she said I know I am she says I 'm nick picking , I 'm just looking for faults , I told you that today |
| 19 | ‘ I told you that before . ’ |
| 20 | I told you that about two weeks ago . |
| 21 | I told you that once before . ’ |
| 22 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 23 | You we , I 'm glad you said that cos , I 'm not sure if I told you this before but d' ya remember what these numbers here mean ? |
| 24 | ‘ You believed you were vampires because someone told you that too . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I threw them all away a couple of weeks ago as soon as I came across that letter from Parkin , ’ Lancaster murmured . |
| 26 | I taught him that too . |
| 27 | I no , I enjoyed it cold yesterday though . |
| 28 | I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . " |
| 29 | ‘ I saw them both as plainly as I see you now . ’ |
| 30 | I brought you two together and do n't you ever forget it . ’ |