Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [verb] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 2 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 3 | I 'd send every letter I 've written you since we last met if I thought you would n't do it to me again , humiliate me again . |
| 4 | The initial interview with an MD seven years my junior was largely comfortable and amicable apart from the minor irritant when he asked if I thought I could relate to young people in the office . |
| 5 | So that if it happened that I died they would be able to make a campaign issue of it . |
| 6 | Ricard vanished and I wished I could follow him . |
| 7 | Erm mm , I do n't know whether there 's any way round it but that 's sort of the set up that they gave us when we started and I guess I 'll have to sort of conform to that , but it |
| 8 | Carol 's face fell and I thought she might burst into tears . |
| 9 | On one occasion she even invited me to her home in Chelsea , but I did n't accept as I knew if I did I would only have to ask her back to my place in Whitechapel . |
| 10 | It 'd take me a while to learn how to drive it , but after I learned that I reckon I could do it . |
| 11 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 12 | " Only the house which I bought when I suggested you should leave the Community . |
| 13 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
| 14 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 15 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
| 16 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
| 17 | I said that I think you 'll find , Ron that Trudy if she married would have to give up her late husband 's occupational widow 's pension so that the way you 're going on now , where you go and stay with her for two or three days at a time is far better oh no , no , no , she 'll be able to keep her pension I said I very much doubt it then I said people are so jealous that if she does marry you and he does n't tell the firm I bet that one of her dear neighbours will oh no they 're all very nice people round where she lives , I thought there 's no good arguing with Ron ! |
| 18 | She said well at least I , you know she said if I thought they 'd get only pass I would n't put them in . |
| 19 | With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . " |
| 20 | Yes she come yesterday afternoon I sat and I says I 'll have a go , I says then I had flu did n't I ? |
| 21 | I never run when I know I could crawl . ’ |