Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [coord] i [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 2 | I fell a d do you remember we went before and I fell and I just sat there and I could n't , they , this erm woman and this man come to help me up and I could n't stop laughing , they could n't get me up . |
| 3 | I said And I always say that it 's the Orcad |
| 4 | ‘ But nothing happened and I never heard from them . ’ |
| 5 | She wiggled and I almost lost my train of thought . |
| 6 | I had the feeling that Signe had n't dismissed Harvey 's words of caution about me as completely as she professed and I carefully refrained from asking about the parcel . |
| 7 | But I warned my children completely off teaching so none of them even contemplated , well they did contemplate , two of them did but I just told them no , not to countenance it |
| 8 | He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again . |
| 9 | He said and I just do n't take no notice of him . |
| 10 | Mr Gibson said : ‘ My wife Pat phoned to tell me what happened and I just packed my bag and got the first flight . ’ |