Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night . |
| 2 | Just take a look got me little list knocking round . |
| 3 | Their publication was a speculation which — so far as it made me known & procured me employment in Zoological drawing — answered my expectations — but in matters of money occasioned me considerable loss . |
| 4 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 5 | My glance allowed me sufficient time to register an abundance of well-washed hair , a rosy cheerful face , a loose-hanging tweed coat and heavily-patterned woollen stockings . |
| 6 | He wrapped me in a warm coat and placing me in the car took me several miles over the moor . |
| 7 | Another monster gave me some fruit to eat . |
| 8 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 9 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 10 | The British official behind his high desk asked me numerous questions which I did n't understand . |
| 11 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 12 | I then retraced my steps all the way back round to Crib Goch because the position of the sun allowed me renewed photo opportunities from its rim — a rim now 40 feet above me as I lay on a ledge . |
| 13 | ‘ The sun taught me that history is not everything . ’ |
| 14 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |
| 16 | An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift . " |
| 17 | ‘ I was fortunate in my choice of boat , and my equipment gave me little trouble . |
| 18 | ‘ The Opera London production of A Midsummer Night 's Dream gave me great pleasure , Noye 's Fludde too . ’ |
| 19 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 20 | Using the structured eavesdropping technique allowed me complete freedom to sit and observe groups . |
| 21 | My job gave me awkward hours and frequent short-notice travel both at home and abroad . |
| 22 | My choice of topic for this evening 's lecture gave me some cause for hesitation . |
| 23 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 24 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 25 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 26 | Typically the punter would say : " One of your crew rang me three months ago . |
| 27 | A friend took me one summer on a tour of the Andean provinces . |
| 28 | An informed insider told me last night : ‘ It is absolutely certain that Nigel has done the deal . |
| 29 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 30 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |