Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] i the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 2 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 3 | Erm , Philip or somebody gave me the level premium . |
| 4 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 5 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 6 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 7 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 8 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 9 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 10 | ‘ You told me the other day that you could n't remember the farewell party very clearly , ’ she began . |
| 11 | After all , you were n't overly concerned about my feelings when you interviewed me the other day , were you ? ’ |
| 12 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 13 | Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want . |
| 14 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 15 | And then — she called me the Lost Prince , but supposing there is another Lost Prince ? |
| 16 | She rang me the other day and said , ‘ I 've found this marvellous place for clothes — get in the car and we 'll go . ’ |
| 17 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 18 | Well you bought me the new vacuum cleaner . |
| 19 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
| 20 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 21 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 22 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 23 | I went to Newark and got a job at , a ball bearing factory , and er they paid me the handsome wage of er two pounds sixteen for forty seven hours . |
| 24 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 25 | He told me , he told me the other night . |
| 26 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 27 | He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length . |
| 28 | He showed me the personal/Impersonal and the Individual/Group columns all drawn out as in figure 1 but the last column was missing . |
| 29 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 30 | I paid the hostel owner three thousand intis for the last time and he handed me the neat slip , carefully signed and stamped twice : ‘ Hostal America PAGADO . ’ |