Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] and i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 We were driving north and I saw it at once .
2 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 .
3 When our storage duties were done we shook hands and I drew her to me and kissed her .
4 ‘ We became roommates and I taught him all he knows . ’
5 I heard kettle and I thought he 's still in house , him .
6 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.
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays .
10 Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life .
11 He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out !
12 ‘ They had tasted blood and I feared they would attack someone else .
13 By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more .
14 up to see Eilleen and I said I 'm sure it would be alright .
15 Afterwards Ivanisevic described his opponent as ‘ an idol for me ’ and said : ‘ This match is always going to be in my memory because he is leaving tennis and I beat him .
16 It 's , it 's Tom who 's doing it , I just wrote Tom and I thought you were in yesterday 's group , but you 're in today 's group so it ca n't be you , it 's Tom .
17 Gauge people 's reaction you know as I said to you earlier are you with that Mike because of all I had contact and I thought I saw you
18 The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know .
19 I simply could n't believe it … it did n't seem to make sense and I thought I must be mistaken but I 'm sure I was n't … ’
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