Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb past] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I got any money . |
| 2 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 3 | I do n't think I had any blood on my hands , for I had held her ankles just below the silver bracelets . |
| 4 | I do n't think I had any celery , I had , I had put in whatever I had in the house and sort of various herbs and spices and things . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , I did n't think I made much impression on her . |
| 6 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 7 | I mean I thought that migration was the er , would be the cure of all ills , in that , you know , we 've got wage differentials here in this , in this hypothetical economy . |
| 8 | I mean I I really could of a I mean I hired that ladder just to do about six foot either side . |
| 9 | I mean I had that go with her . |
| 10 | As it was , I mean I found another chocolate gateau under those Christmas tree cakes . |
| 11 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 12 | But the fact is , at that point , I did n't even know I had any information to feed anybody . |
| 13 | But I say I went all day without nothing to eat bloody starved . |
| 14 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 15 | right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid |
| 16 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 17 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 18 | Early on within this game I th when Blackburn scored I thought this game would be taken away from 'em . |
| 19 | No one had heard of access to ink print information in those days and as I was the only blind student there I did n't feel I had any support to ask for it to be made available . |
| 20 | When I was in the U.S. recently for the Walker Cup match I had some time to read their golf magazines , watch television golf and talk with some of the golf club members of my father-in-law 's country club . |
| 21 | You may remember I spent some time in Paris — not the most pleasant of times freezing in the snow , chased by wolves and being half-hanged at Montfaucon . |
| 22 | He checks I got enough money to buy the string , and then I go off . |
| 23 | It was curiosity , when I was sixteen at school I was told I had another sister at the same school . |
| 24 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it then I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . |
| 26 | You know I got some wrapping paper that one ? |
| 27 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's alright , but I do wish I had more time to myself . ’ |
| 29 | But currently she 's by Jason ( Beverly Hills 90210 ) Priestly 's side in the video for Roy Orbison 's chart hit I Drove All Night . |
| 30 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |