Example sentences of "me i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when I got my teacher 's job , the aunt told me I owed her a lot of money . |
| 2 | It seemed to me I owed him some explanation . |
| 3 | ‘ From what you told me I assumed it . |
| 4 | Do n't tell me I imagined that too . |
| 5 | He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 7 | You were looking at me I knew you were going to say that |
| 8 | As the wave of relief flooded through me I saw Mr Bailes climbing over the wall from the next field . |
| 9 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 10 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 11 | Even as he spoke to me I felt very uneasy . |
| 12 | She proposes consequently the following paraphrase of I was sorry to fail : If I had known this : this will happen to me ( I will fail ) I would have thought this : this will be bad , I will feel sorry when I thought this : I know this now : it happened to me I felt it ( sorry ) |
| 13 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 14 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 15 | I did n't mean it , the garden-master was right to punish me I deserved it . ) |
| 16 | I know I do I forgot to take one down to the place with me I checked the then that , now we go |
| 17 | On her next visit to me I hypnotized Joyce , encouraging her to relax as much as possible . |
| 18 | But er anyhow to me I enjoyed it when I knew some of the children . |
| 19 | Lucker tells me I slept with a smile on my face . |
| 20 | Terry rightly told me I went down the wrong I was looking for names rather than the dots . |
| 21 | a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there . |
| 22 | and erm , ha , got home , did n't wan na go out , there was me I got changed , I put on those new leggings I was all in black I thought I looked rather nice , you know , and Gary said what you all dressed up for ? |
| 23 | Oh Clare promised me I cooked one . |
| 24 | And , did continue to get professional help after that , but I think she was actually one of the factors that sent me further down , by telling me I looked well ! |
| 25 | As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud . |
| 26 | But I do remember that in every room he showed me I made sure I was near to the door , the safest point of exit if he tried anything . |
| 27 | For a flicker of a moment as the policeman looked up at me I thought I had struck a wall again , but then the door opened . |
| 28 | All the time Miss B. was rowing me I thought ‘ Dire was the twang of his silver bow ’ out of Iliad Six , and she said ‘ I 'm surprised you think it a smiling matter . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When John Cook got to within two shots of me I thought I might not win . |
| 30 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |