Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sports were clearly popular and well-established traditions ; but when I asked my Indian friends about their survival in modern Delhi , they all shook their heads . |
| 2 | Matilda said , ‘ I am very sorry I asked you those questions , Miss Honey . |
| 3 | I hugged my bursting shins , thinking , Ow , my fucking shins are bursting ! |
| 4 | I made one many years ago and found it worked very well . |
| 5 | I made you some notes , as well . ’ |
| 6 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
| 7 | And hence Stephanie 's shock-horror performance when I made my innocent enquiries ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I met him six years ago , as I was going through my divorce , ’ Miss Dale said yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ I met him several times at balls and routs , and I found him very entertaining . |
| 10 | You 've changed a lot since I met you those years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | And I got her two strips of Elastaplast . |
| 13 | You 've got Christmas raffle tickets , get them all together , I 've got you pounds worth on shelf the other week , and then I got your two pounds worth , I , two pounds worth on |
| 14 | And that 's why I got my two friends to come . |
| 15 | Off she went ‘ to see ’ and eventually I got my two pieces of wholemeal , well more or less wholemeal , bread . |
| 16 | I got my new trousers |
| 17 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 18 | I got you three quarters . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well , I charged them six shillings and out the three of them went puffing their heads off . |
| 21 | Using a similar approach I categorised my own activities as illustrated in Table 1 . |
| 22 | I plugged my naked feet in between the empty seats as tears rolled down my cheeks . |
| 23 | I weighed you two ounces . |
| 24 | Why do you think I told her those stories , the other night , about demons getting their comeuppances ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 27 | " 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 . " |
| 28 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | ‘ Would it make any difference , ’ Fen asked , ‘ if I told you those photographs are not of Petula ? ’ |