Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | But if it had been irradiated , well , let us put it this way , I would n't buy food if I knew it was irradiated . |
2 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
3 | You shall see it will fall pat as I told you ’ ( V.i.185ff . ) . |
4 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
5 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
6 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
7 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
8 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
9 | I think Frank was glad to have met Ryan and I hoped he was also slightly impressed with Hellen 's current friend , his future son-in-law . |
10 | Nor did I dare return until I thought you 'd be safely in bed , and no temptation to me . ’ |
11 | well your mum said to me well I 'll tell you the same as I 've told Con but I said I 'm not against the children or anything the children |
12 | And that was the day after ( heart going bang-the-big-bass-drum 'cos I knew what they 'd say ) I tried to get a word in edgeways when they finally fixed my GCSE options . |
13 | I paid £130 when I bought it second hand and would like to know if this is its true value . |
14 | In my experience , very few women can remain detached , but you must be one of that rare breed , because I formed the distinct impression that you did n't even like Calder when I heard you interviewing him , but how wrong can one be ? ’ |
15 | When our storage duties were done we shook hands and I drew her to me and kissed her . |
16 | I never thought I would like babies till I had one . |
17 | ‘ We became roommates and I taught him all he knows . ’ |
18 | actually I tend to waste money cos I thought I 'd sit here and moan about taking them out the cost of it , but then I considered spending a hundred pound on a bed that he probably does n't even need , it 's daft really in n it ? |
19 | I am not usually a forward sort of person as you know Elsie but I thought there had been enough talk about death enough of wanting bad bad things so I said why kill it it is not a fish for the pot . |
20 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
21 | ‘ She was called Masquerade when I bought her . |
22 | Did I marry Stuart because I thought he would n't let me down the way my father had ? |
23 | I heard kettle and I thought he 's still in house , him . |
24 | Oh yes and then I done , I did er I put forty two A north and then I went to put street and I wrote it in , typed it in , but it went underneath forty two A. |
25 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
26 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
27 | Seems ages since I saw them . |
28 | She started telling us how she had a bell which she rang if she needed help and I said I 'd listen out for it . |
29 | It does n't have pockets but I liked it because of the red buttons . ’ |
30 | Erm I I am surprised well I do n't I 'm not surprised really they 're probably busy doing things but I thought we might have got a couple of vicars on this er this afternoon to talk about it . |