Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Connon when I arrived told me about the letter Jenny received and also about your warning to him that there might be phone calls also . |
| 2 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 3 | and I knew started me on me chest , so I had the doctor Tuesday all of us , but they went in before me |
| 4 | It will be very wrong if what I said gets me into trouble . |
| 5 | She agreed to accompany me to the building society the next day so that we could withdraw Charlie 's share of the money . |
| 6 | I 've accepted that she tried to stop me from becoming an artist . |
| 7 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 8 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me why you tried to prevent me from finding out that I was a Corosini . ’ |
| 10 | I suppose if you 'd asked me before all this happened , I 'd have said I 'd give in , but I was so angry . |
| 11 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 12 | When I made love to you , and then , even more devastating , discovered I was the first , that you 'd chosen me to be your first lover , it was like … capturing the castle , stealing the Crown Jewels … ’ |
| 13 | B : If you 'd left me as captain , none of it would have happened . |
| 14 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 15 | They probably thought you 'd added me as a convoy . ’ |
| 16 | After you 'd deserted me to my dubious fate . ’ |
| 17 | You came to see me on Sunday , ’ she added , in case Loretta had forgotten . |
| 18 | c I think I she 'd seen me at my worst on Friday |
| 19 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 20 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 21 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 22 | Those nights of passionate improvisation after she 'd introduced me to her two friends from Peredelkino , the writers ' village . |
| 23 | I was hoping that Jane would type my application , but when she came to visit me in Cambridge , she had her arm in plaster , having broken it . |
| 24 | She came to see me with her husband . ’ |
| 25 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 26 | When our daughter Rebecca was three she came to see me in my office one day and said , ‘ Daddy , you 're the leader of the church , and you know everything . ’ |
| 27 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 28 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 29 | Now that we were adults , she seemed to accept me as a friend . |
| 30 | Anyway , getting back to my sister , she seemed to expect me to side with her when she 'd been just the opposite with me when I 'd wanted to paint , and I 'm afraid harsh words were spoken all round . |