Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matilda said , ‘ I am very sorry I asked you those questions , Miss Honey . |
| 2 | I made you some notes , as well . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I met him six years ago , as I was going through my divorce , ’ Miss Dale said yesterday . |
| 4 | ‘ I met him several times at balls and routs , and I found him very entertaining . |
| 5 | You 've changed a lot since I met you those years ago . |
| 6 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 7 | And I got her two strips of Elastaplast . |
| 8 | I got you three quarters . |
| 9 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 10 | Well , I charged them six shillings and out the three of them went puffing their heads off . |
| 11 | I weighed you two ounces . |
| 12 | Why do you think I told her those stories , the other night , about demons getting their comeuppances ? |
| 13 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
| 14 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 15 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 16 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 17 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 18 | ‘ Would it make any difference , ’ Fen asked , ‘ if I told you those photographs are not of Petula ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I told you twenty times . ’ |
| 20 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 21 | I think I told you some months ago that I would be asking you to consider that |
| 22 | I practised it enough times in the car coming here , ’ Whitlock replied with a grin . |
| 23 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 24 | Once , in Colin 's absence , I showed him three pictures which he was considering : a portrait by Veronese ; another by Tintoretto and the centre panel of an altarpiece by Girolamo di Benvenuto . |
| 25 | I see , I thought I delivered you two cups |
| 26 | I hit it several times but it had no effect . |
| 27 | ‘ I lost him three days ago and — ‘ |
| 28 | I offered them all glasses as well , and Angelica took one and went on bellyaching to all around her about how Steve had let her down and she should never have trusted the louse , and it was a tribute to her acting that there was a distinct drawing aside of skirts in the pursed mouths of those around her who were fed up with hearing about it . |
| 29 | And I saw him five minutes later eating sandwiches — posting them , Breeze , like letters in a pillar-box ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I saw him several times a day and he asked about my baby 's father . |