Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [subord] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed and continued , ‘ Piers has been keeping me entertained while I waited for you . |
| 2 | However , I realized if I looked at it underwater , it was bigger . |
| 3 | I refer to Burnley , whose council I led before I came to the House . |
| 4 | ‘ My word , what interest I kindled when I spoke of the hospital at Christmas . |
| 5 | You arranged for that vehicle I requested when I called from Frankfurt Airport ? |
| 6 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 7 | Er the impression I got when I talked to the locals who lived here was that it was n't gon na be that mixed . |
| 8 | And I would be always be with John in the stable and I got until I got into er some danger walking er underneath a horses legs and he 'd he 'd send me out banned me from the stable and shut the door . |
| 9 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 10 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 11 | But I found when I looked at my books a week ago , or a fortnight ago , I thought , oh I know this , I know this , but it 's not until you get into it that you think shit ! |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a fantastic-looking man called Rob English whom I found when I trod on his toe in a shop in Brighton , ’ says Sarah . |
| 13 | I muttered as I trailed across the green . |
| 14 | Erm I came when I came in England I came here . |
| 15 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |
| 16 | I noticed when i went by on Sunday , that all those houses have been built , right the way down to the , as you go on er p on erm on what 's the name of the place where they first er the first lot of . |
| 17 | In Spanish tradition , I rested when I wanted to on the bolts , 700 feet above ground , and with a little planning it was possible to use jugs for almost every move . |
| 18 | That 's the way I turned when I went in the jail . |
| 19 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 20 | I watched as I spoke in case she passed out again . |
| 21 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 22 | All I felt when I went to his surgery was a dryness of the throat and a quivering at the knees , and providing I kept my eyes tightly shut all the time I managed to get through the visit fairly easily . |
| 23 | If only that was what I felt when I looked in the mirror , instead of anxiety over these little springs of steel . |
| 24 | I felt like I had to be in a group . ’ |
| 25 | I felt like I spoke like him . ’ |
| 26 | I ca n't remember much of what I wore when I arrived from Harehills in 1950 . |
| 27 | I knew if I got in you 'd come too . |
| 28 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
| 29 | ‘ Roll out the barrel , ’ I sang as I leapt into the middle of the floor . |
| 30 | I laughed when I read of the things which they considered important : political creeds , literary cliques , careerist intrigues . |