Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 2 | On the first one , I was making the record and I broke a string on my Firebird and could n't be bothered changing strings , and so I plugged the Lazer in and it sounded so good that I kept using it . |
| 3 | ‘ He never used to notice when people took advantage of him , so I started pointing it out . |
| 4 | You know the white stuff they have on them , I thought -Oh , you 're a bit dirty are n't you , so I started washing her . |
| 5 | I was overjoyed that our letters had regained their old intimacy , and I wrote telling him how much I delighted in sharing his thoughts once more . |
| 6 | Right , a few problems yesterday , a forklift and trailer keys not being signed in and I had taking them home . |
| 7 | Sometimes I took speed — ‘ blues ’ , little blue tablets — to keep me awake , but they made me depressed , they made my testicles shrivel up and I kept thinking I was getting a heart attack . |
| 8 | The road was wet and I kept telling him to go slower . ’ |
| 9 | And I kept telling him , yeah , Oliver , but the day that , you know , some Nicaraguan unity group appears and it 's evident that it 's got everybody in it … that 's the day I 'll begin to believe that this thing has a future . |
| 10 | ‘ They kept saying they thought it was a fine script , and I kept saying it was n't . |
| 11 | I had mine in kitchen and I kept knocking it over every time I opened up |
| 12 | As I gained confidence in their genuine goodwill I found that my sense of humour returned and I enjoyed making them laugh . |
| 13 | The result was very rewarding and I enjoyed doing it very much . |
| 14 | And I said renting it , because it must of been occupied by animals ! |
| 15 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And I started telling them , ‘ I 'm not an Indian , I 'm Aymara . |
| 17 | many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again . |
| 18 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 19 | And made them a f and they look for their fry every Saturday and I stopped doing it . |
| 20 | They were exhausted going into the singles and I hated banging them in there for every match . |
| 21 | And I suggested charging them like sixty pounds for the three nights . |
| 22 | At Martin Brundle 's lunch in London I discovered that Maurice Hamilton had been the Mastermind question-setter and he reported that if I thought answering them was hard , he had found setting them a good deal harder . |
| 23 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
| 24 | You would be very cross if I stopped giving it . ’ |
| 25 | I told her Barry should have kept him in , and she said if I started criticizing him , she 'd get Don to the phone . ’ |
| 26 | Come on , sweetie , what if I started getting it on with one of my baby dykes , what would you feel ? |
| 27 | Cos I kept singing it this morning . |
| 28 | That 's cos I kept hitting it , bloody . |
| 29 | I started it cos I started teasing her cos she 's big chested for her age , right , she 's gon na follow my sister cos my sister 's got big boobs and I started , but of course he just carries it on and on and on now . |
| 30 | I bought exactly what I wanted and I did spend a lot of money , but I enjoyed doing it and had fun . |