Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , 'e told me ter get out an' called me a lazy so-an'-so so I stuck one on 'im . |
| 2 | they always come just just as I 'm getting on and getting well luckily enough I got me me lounge done first thing this morning . |
| 3 | Well I had a a worn out little paint brush and I rolled it on so I kept my hands dry . |
| 4 | She showed a distinctively un-retriever-like fear of water , so eventually I carried her out and set her afloat . |
| 5 | Ever so slowly I raised my head and camera and there it was . |
| 6 | So perhaps I felt I must tell you all this , now , before I know you better , so that I can tell it you without too much confusion . |
| 7 | ‘ My heart was pounding so loud I thought they 'd hear it . |
| 8 | I told her I had a job for Duncan and there was money in it and that was enough for her to yell ‘ Duncan ! ’ so loud I felt I heard it without the need of the phone . |
| 9 | So timidly I approached him . |
| 10 | So foolishly I married someone from an impeccable diplomatic background who knew about servants , flower arranging and how to address the third wife of an African monarch . ’ |
| 11 | So obviously I sent it back pretty quickly . |
| 12 | I seen one woman and she had a police uniform on , so obviously I knew it was the police . |
| 13 | And I I said oh well that 's fair enough so I dug them out and sent them to him . |
| 14 | You 've been gone so long I thought someone had run off with you . ’ |
| 15 | If a relative says something like , ‘ I have n't heard from you for so long I thought you had emigrated ! ’ , what they may really mean is , ‘ I wish you would come and see me more often . ’ |
| 16 | And er I so so I brought her and her three friends that she 'd run , chummed about with them and I give them a good talking to for about an hour . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 18 | I had , naturally heard all about her , but deep , deep down inside I missed my granny . |
| 19 | So anyway I thought I wo n't have a drink cos if this secretary was n't there I did n't know how long she 'd be so er but I di I went upstairs to where we had the meeting with Mike the other week . |
| 20 | So thereupon I echoed her words . |
| 21 | So soon I found myself fully kitted out and ready for action with fleecy undergarments , waterproof suits , wellies , helmet and head torch . |
| 22 | I played for a while , and then I stole up to look at her , because she was so still I thought she had fallen asleep , but her eyes were wide open , and there was colour , all rosy , high on her cheeks . |
| 23 | An hour or so later I saw my mother 's green Metro , just about to turn out of the drive-way of Hamish and Tone 's house . |
| 24 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 25 | Much later I heard him showing Mr Mason to his bedroom , and was glad that Mr Rochester sounded so cheerful . |
| 26 | A year or so back I found myself sitting next to him , bearded in his old age and wearing plus fours , overall resembling a successful if slightly barmy countryman , at a ghastly new play at the Almeida . |
| 27 | I exclaimed my heart beating so wildly I thought I was going to have a heart attack right there at the table . |
| 28 | Not very long ago I found myself being interviewed in a university survey on residential mobility in which some of my own students were fieldworkers . |
| 29 | Farag laughed so loudly I thought they would hear us . ’ |
| 30 | When I first wrote ‘ you ’ a paragraph or so ago I meant it in the general , anonymous sense , universal second person . |