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

No	Sentence
1	M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him .
2	The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling .
3	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 . "
4	When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up .
5	No it 's no good Dennis I heard it last week .
6	However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market .
7	On the spur of the moment I offered him 40 — he almost wept in gratitude .
8	‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday .
9	‘ It 's a good job I saw you first , then ! ’
10	And I would also point out that we are not proposing excessive development , in one of the papers I 've I 've put round , and I repeat the point I made it earlier .
11	Anyway , since I do not seem to be the owner of a super-fit body I thought it best this year to enter an event that required the minimum of movement .
12	I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum .
13	Cos e the other day I left her forty pound dad .
14	Be before you were chosen by whatever process a number of us was asked to comment and one of the things I felt it important to say was that the URC plays a very important role both in being a bridge between all these nations but also serving a particular reform tradition within Wales .
15	When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills .
16	And later that night I saw him dead . ’
17	He seemed to be doing fine and then one night I found him cold and dying .
18	Eleven , you 've got four hundred pound , you got so it 's a good second hand one or a cheapy no , well it would be a cheapy I told him most of them around about seven hundred and ninety nine
19	Now , on the back I bought him some extra fog lights for back and I bought him them fog lights that goes int window .
20	At the beginning I found it hard work because he did not seem able to concentrate .
21	From Mr evidence I assessed her net year earnings up to her fourth year as nine thousand pounds and with a multiplier of one , award that sum .
22	Last month I gave you some homework .
23	I took part in the obstacle course which when I was that age I found it difficult .
24	I hope you 've locked the car up , three times last week I found it open , it really is terribly dangerous …
25	I go to a charming Chinese lady acupuncturist and although I detest needles I found it painless and relaxing and it helped me tremendously before and after the operations .
26	In my last article in the magazine I told you all about my trip to Saudi Arabia , but I did n't tell you why I went or what I hope to do next .
27	Sec secondly we must welcome Paul to the meeting , as you know he joined us at the beginning of January to run the neighbourhood watch schemes and as office manager I thought it appropriate he attend the management meetings .
28	The next morning I thought it wiser not to go to the Treasury .
29	First , my pet rabbit died ; one morning I found it stiff and cold in its hutch , for no apparent reason , and I was told that it was dead .
30	As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us .