Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 2 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 3 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 4 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 5 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 6 | no , no cos she just told me this morning you were going to see her work in the morning . |
| 7 | Ah , it ju , although , I mean , just when you said that just reminded me that time Hannah ! |
| 8 | My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’ |
| 9 | Drummond once told me that Radio 3 broadcasts to about 30 minority tastes , each of which is characterised by its intense dislike of the other 29 . |
| 10 | Dad hated old Gran anyway , we had n't seen her for years and she always sent me Californian Poppy Bath Salts for Christmas . |
| 11 | And he always gave me this bottle |
| 12 | And he always gave me this bottle |
| 13 | A grand image I have to admit , but then re-entering that room still gave me some anxiety : as my American ‘ friend ’ surely recognised , I was in need of ‘ positive visualisation . ’ |
| 14 | Reggie seemed genuinely pleased with the idea of a tribute to Joyce , and from that day forth gave me endless friendship and encouragement . |
| 15 | He nearly got me this afternoon . |
| 16 | You probably told me last night but I ca n't remember , I was just off |
| 17 | Nearly killed me that dog ! |
| 18 | Monty Lee and Dick Cleaver both gave me generous references . |
| 19 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 20 | ‘ This really shook me this morning although I am getting over it a bit now , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 21 | Derek really gave me some stick about my ‘ fan club , on the way home in the car ; he told my mum everything , and she had a good laugh , too . |
| 22 | that one really annoyed me last night , that did . |
| 23 | Brian and Tom asked me to get in touch with people for them ; Tom even gave me long phone numbers for his wife in Beirut and daughters in the States . |
| 24 | He even gave me some needles — after that scare with the Soneryl , you know ? |
| 25 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 26 | He never told me those things . |
| 27 | He never told me any details . ’ |
| 28 | Nearly bloody killed me that dog ! |
| 29 | With remarks like ‘ Ah well , that never did me any harm ; I have gone through worse ’ , he would brush aside his colleagues ' explorations as irrelevant , yet hint at having himself suffered as a child . |
| 30 | While I 'm standing up to my thighs in water trying to kill a lot of fish that never did me any harm , somebody in this town takes it into his head to rub out Jack Mahoney . ’ |