Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm we have n't got anybody here with a beard so we ca n't demonstrate and anyway it would be a dangerous experiment if we did , but supposing you tried to strangle me and I 've got a big beard you know , a kind of Karl Marx style beard well a big beard , er you get your hands round my neck and what can I do ? |
| 2 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 3 | Nicola seemed to fancy me and I fancied her . |
| 4 | It seemed to suit me and I seemed to suit it and I felt comfortable . |
| 5 | It seemed to suit me and I seemed to suit it and I felt comfortable . |
| 6 | He began to address us and I found the way he spoke mesmeric . |
| 7 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 8 | This is what they wanted and I undertook to do it and I tell you , all me life I 've been able to and have done that . |
| 9 | Then you started to fight me and I felt this red mist explode in front of my eyes . |
| 10 | I 'll do them when you 're erm cos I meant to do them and I forgot all about it . |
| 11 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 12 | ‘ He wanted to see it and I showed it to him . ’ |
| 13 | I wanted to destroy it and I did n't care about the pain . |