Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he had seen the enemy aircraft and , as he winged over into a steep dive I followed him without question . |
| 2 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 3 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 4 | Oh Mum I told you about that . |
| 5 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 6 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 7 | It is Sir Thomas Throgmorton , after the Grand Dickensian Banquet I told you about . ’ |
| 8 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 9 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 10 | Thing was in fairness Martin er er it 's actually the sociability side er both both of you talked about the house did n't you and how , how long you came here and of course I changed it to how , the directions er which you gave me now |
| 11 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 12 | ‘ That afternoon I asked him about it . |
| 13 | This afternoon I confronted him with my suspicions , and he admitted everything . |
| 14 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 15 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 16 | This is the strange storm I warned you of … |
| 17 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 18 | With deliberate irony I took him to Lock 's in St James 's Street , the most aristocratic hat-maker in London . |
| 19 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 20 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 21 | Right so , David I reminded you about that letter , when are you gon na bring it |
| 22 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 23 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 24 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 25 | Still on the subject of pets , I must n't forget Mrs. I found her under the millstone table outside the kitchen on a cold November evening . |
| 26 | Even in disguise I knew her at once , for a truly sensual woman can not disguise herself from my perceptions once I have seen her . ’ |
| 27 | You remember Penny I told you about ? |
| 28 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 29 | I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the . |
| 30 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |