Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [coord] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 2 | I was awful , in those days I was into acid green sleeks and I had my hair cut in a triangle When I saw Auntie Muriel I thought , if that 's the way you end up , working on a farm , I 'll stay at home and become an underresourced juvenile But it was n't up to me . |
| 3 | I heard the cat miaowing and I knew something was wrong . |
| 4 | In any case — thank God — eventually my period came and I knew I was n't pregnant . |
| 5 | and then this , this , the phone went and I picked it up and this squeaky voice at the end of the phone said |
| 6 | Credit to them , they came back , got a great goal , Les Phillips had a great game , made the first one I think , no the second one he made did n't he ? erm But he played tremendous , Les ; he got the passing going and I thought they did very well as a team , we kept our composure . |
| 7 | He did not change expression , but an eyebrow flickered and I knew I had him . |
| 8 | cos a man called and I caught him instead . |
| 9 | Last January my grandmother died and I took it very badly . |
| 10 | With a final burst of furious rain , the sky cleared and I dragged my bag along the road in blinding sunshine . |
| 11 | Yeah and bus stopped and I said it was going to cos we |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |
| 13 | Some sense of duty remained and I visited her quite regularly . |
| 14 | ‘ He only tries when there 's an England selector watching and I said his OBE stood for ‘ Overweight Bag of Excrement ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Carol 's face fell and I thought she might burst into tears . |
| 16 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |