Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 2 | I merely said it avoided the real issue . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah I just told her to put the top on the pen when she was having a drink , because she had the pen in her hand |
| 4 | No I just told him to revise the er the cycle of the engine . |
| 5 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 6 | I just said they had the same molecular formula |
| 7 | ‘ No , I just remembered you mentioned the baths when we first met . ’ |
| 8 | I desperately wanted him to see the right ‘ way to go ’ . |
| 9 | I always wondered what made the big difference between the last rates bill for Brent and the present arrangements ; now I understand that it was the £140 reduction . |
| 10 | ‘ If you promise not to tell anyone , ’ Margaret said , when she finally got to see a doctor , ‘ I nearly had it done the old way , you know , with a knitting needle , then I lost my nerve . ’ |
| 11 | I really wanted him to get the job . |
| 12 | I listened closely to what he had to say , but I then pressed him to name the best-known avant-garde artists for me . |
| 13 | I actually wanted someone to share the excruciating sad pleasure I got from some of the words … . |
| 14 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 15 | ‘ I never believed I had the front . |
| 16 | ‘ She used to share her sweets , but I never thought she had the sense of a hen . ’ |
| 17 | I never felt I had the choice . |
| 18 | ‘ Her father and I never wanted her to join the police . |
| 19 | At home she was a queen , I never liked her to do the heavy jobs . |
| 20 | When six chimed on the clock above the door , I reluctantly asked him to push the blind back in , and to lock up while I checked over the day 's takings . |