Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where was all that kindness , courtesy , and respect when you tried to seduce me last night ? ’ she demanded , glaring at him . |
| 2 | and so he frequently tried conducting me that way . |
| 3 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 4 | ‘ Did Capron ask you straight whether you 'd given me any help ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’ |
| 6 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 7 | So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack . |
| 8 | Feeling desperate and willing to try anything , Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring . |
| 9 | For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children . |
| 10 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 11 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 12 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 13 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |
| 14 | The new owner , Mr. Bolsover , came to see me last week , and I 'm afraid he may not let us go on using the barn . |
| 15 | One morning when I was visiting , she said in a matter-of-fact voice , ‘ Jesus came to visit me last night ! ’ |
| 16 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 17 | " You certainly gave him your version of how your aunt came to leave me this property , " Matthew said bitterly . |
| 18 | Well i is n't if you 'd asked me last August when we bought the I would have said probably Radio Brittany or Radio Rouane |
| 19 | I told you she 'd sent me some cast-offs and they 're much too grand for me to wear . |
| 20 | ABOVE As time went by , more and more people started bringing me injured birds to look after . |
| 21 | Guy supplied grimly , dropping a possessive kiss on her mouth , ‘ Since I arrived in St Lucia for a spell of solitary soul-searching , and an evil-tempered harpy with a mop of red hair and no clothes on leapt off my bed and started calling me rude names … ’ |
| 22 | She started giving me quizzical looks . |
| 23 | Then the young assistant started giving me funny looks , as if there was something up and I should know there was something up . |
| 24 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 25 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 26 | Well Geoff did buy me some sherry glasses he says oh , you give me two |
| 27 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 28 | I 'm afraid I persuaded the woman I spoke to give me this address . |
| 29 | Er Stuart , Stuart did phone me some months ago on this issue , to say he was having increasing difficulty getting to the meetings , and he asked me if er I would take it on , and I said , I would if , you know , if he were pushed . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |