Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man jumped in and shouted at me to drive but I refused . |
| 2 | She laughed and continued , ‘ Piers has been keeping me entertained while I waited for you . |
| 3 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 4 | They did n't allow me to sit where I chose . |
| 5 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 6 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 7 | It takes me places that I thought I 'd never see |
| 8 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 9 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 10 | They would n't have got me to come if I had n't had , if I . |
| 11 | I did n't know till the next we er till the weekend and he made me know as I 'd swore . |
| 12 | I asked although I had already decided that Harvey was a little drunk . |
| 13 | If I asked if I asked you to compile a list of advertisers of companies and businesses who you think will advertise in a medical practice booklet you may you may list out twenty five . |
| 14 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 15 | I asked as I spooned a gob of whipped cream over my gooseberry pie . |
| 16 | I asked as I held the deli door open for him . |
| 17 | I asked as I stroked the baby 's fuzzy head . |
| 18 | I asked as I started the engine . |
| 19 | I asked as I fumbled my keys out . |
| 20 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 21 | I asked because I wanted to know if I would be in a job if Sharon was in a position to employ me . |
| 22 | Er taking off and sending telegrams , you see , erm then I was told that the Railway Company wer were taking girls on again , so I applied and I had to go to Ipswich to pass two more exams , you see , and er and started work and the in the Catering Manager 's office at Ipswich Station as , as a clerk doing typing and general office work as the Manager had to go on the district . |
| 23 | I gazed until I asked myself if I was quite mad . |
| 24 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 25 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 26 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 27 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 28 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 29 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 30 | It will keep for a while , at least until I have recorded a little visit I made after I finished writing my life of Elsie and the episode concerning the Butcher . |