Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 2 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 3 | B : ‘ I thought she was far too cocky but then I changed my mind and I pursued her with a vengeance . ’ |
| 4 | After lunch , Bernice and I armed ourselves with black plastic dustbin liners and we made a concerted attack on Billy 's room . |
| 5 | tuned it in to the four channels and I said what about video |
| 6 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 7 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 8 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 9 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 10 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 11 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 12 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 13 | Well , you 're a bigger fool than I took you for . ’ |
| 14 | one thing you 've got to watch out for apar I go I remember I , I was thinking about getting colour monitors for work and I read lots of articles about them |
| 15 | My mother was at work and I called her on the telephone . |
| 16 | And er I erm I organised a lot of that sort of thing erm by er it was exact measurements and spindles and you know like Erm yes , I could n't remember a lot now but er a lot of people , if I might say so , used me you know , Michael , my knowledge and skill and I allowed them to and I 'm not complaining . |
| 17 | but er Barry come off her husband and he said oh you going down oh I says aye , he saves us fifty pence and I got you in your bread and a pie , right , er I want the erm , did Billy take the dishes up ? |
| 18 | And we had a neighbour named and he 'd worked at E T N S all his life and had some influence and I mentioned it to him and he asked me , asked me if he could find me a job . |
| 19 | " When these telegrams came I ran down and opened the door to the boy and I showed them to Mummy and she began very bravely , how lovely dear , and then began to cry and shut herself in her room . |
| 20 | I shall tell you , instead , of the time Gerda and I saw you on the stage in Vienna . ’ |
| 21 | So he said erm I said to the woman I went to the court this morning so he said when you explain to me he said I 've got money in my pockets cos I borrowed it from dad tha he said I owed sixty two pound so he said I said to the woman in the court how can I pay this the sixty two pounds when you 've frozen my account ? |
| 22 | You know , Pete and I encouraged him like anything in his writing . |
| 23 | Might just be one room wonder if I got my on my er B T shares ? foods cold by the time you get |
| 24 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 25 | ‘ They were made in Florence but I bought them in Bonn . ’ |
| 26 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 27 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 28 | You asked for Operation Cuckoo to be your personal responsibility and I gave it to you . |
| 29 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 30 | But luck , the storm and I introduced him to the Bomb , and that settled his game . |