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 .
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