Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] and i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |
| 2 | ‘ He was a sort of out-front version of me and I identified with what he did a lot . |
| 3 | I was just trying to get past some people in front of me and I stepped off the pavement and the driver — he did n't have a chance . |
| 4 | So I had to go past him and I went past him and my friend gave |
| 5 | alright just shut up a minute , I 'm talking to ya , so she said afterwards oh I says that was good were n't it could n't even switch the machine on and she said it does n't matter does it , she said it 's not what happens its the way you deal with it , and I made a joke of it and I said to him oh this is good i n't it ? relax you 're in safe hands I ca n't even switch the machine on , but anyway I did it in the end and he was alright , and he said thank you very much , that was , you were very good , you were very kind , cos it is frightening and one thing I said to him do n't hold your breath , because people think when their having an E C G they 've got ta hold their breath for some reason , just lie there take a deep breath and do n't breathe again but you 've never had one so you would n't no , I 'm just going to mix this up |
| 6 | I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone . |
| 7 | When I went up to investigate it the floor caved in beneath me and I fell into the middle of all those nasty plants . ’ |
| 8 | Robin , er William was at school , one year behind me and I played with him , but Bill was n't very er big . |
| 9 | Yeah cos I looked in ours and I said to our Joe I 'd like a nice dress . |
| 10 | Newark wanted to take it forward and er I went and talked to them and I said to them you 're not really appropriate , what you want is to recruit some more specials |
| 11 | No , but it was a loan to me and I said to my dad he was loaning it me and I said to him erm I pay you back and then when I went to pick the cheque up er he says er well me mum says he giving you that you know he says what we 're gon na do is when , when they write the will out you 'll get that much less than the others , I says well as long as it ai n't gon na cause any problems |
| 12 | He explained everything to me and I went across a big courtyard , through a door into a large hall , then up some stairs and along a landing turning left towards an outside terrace down to the lawns at the rear of the Palace . |
| 13 | I do n't know , but she , I , she waved to me and I waved to her and I picked it up and I said do you want this ? |
| 14 | Three pairs of eyes focused on me and I felt like the family pet , the Old English sheepdog that 's lost its marbles and joined up with the wolf pack to go worrying innocent lambs . |
| 15 | The hospital 's central heating had been doing a fine job of drying everything on me and I felt like one of those old-fashioned clothes-horses , steaming slightly in warm air . |
| 16 | The wedding dress hung loosely on me and I appeared to myself , reflected in the cheval mirror , gratifyingly ridiculous . |
| 17 | The woman with whom we boarded took pity on me and I worked in the house with her . |
| 18 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 19 | I saw him standing there getting wet all over him and I said to myself he was a fine person . |
| 20 | But er I did two or three hundred , four hundred , five hundred a day and I got fed up on it and I said to the gaffers one day , if you do n't change me from this job I 'm leaving , so they says oh we do n't want you to do that , best filer we 've had . |
| 21 | So I fell for it and I volunteered for the Guards , but after a week , they decided I , I 'd got flat feet which was n't very good for slamming your foot down as the guards demanded in those days . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're laughing at me and I laughed at myself , but he 's the best astrologer in London . |
| 23 | staying open , I ai n't going , I ca n't handle it I said I just wan na get out , it was really like a sentence I just could n't stand it of course I laughed , me and Elaine went to the meeting same place , same wall and I kept looking at her and we brought you in here to say thanks , and Elaine looked at me and I looked at her and I said well if that 's all he 's got ta say I said I 'm not , I , what did I say to Elaine ? |
| 24 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 25 | So people looked at me and I ran after them . |
| 26 | He threw himself at me and I jumped to one side , leaving him to fall on the deck . |
| 27 | Curious , I went up the path to have a look at it and I discovered to my no great surprise that it marked the entrance to a churchyard . |
| 28 | No , I ca n't , it 'll , if you do n't take the head of it I ca n't eat it , I could n't even , I have prawn cocktail and you have a prawn , they put , they put a prawn on top whole , I could n't eat that , I could have peeled it , I looked at it and I thought about it , no , I can eat them when there done |
| 29 | There was a rope around me and I followed after Silver , who held the other end . |