Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During those months you 've frequently explained how we would both benefit from informing the literary world of the trick Tristram and I played on it . |
| 2 | It was a drizzling spring afternoon and I paused on the steps to button my coat . |
| 3 | The hospitality extended to a good meal , and before leaving we were given the facilities of a nearby chateau , where the jeep driver and I had the luxury of a hot bath , laid on by the local Mayor . |
| 4 | The lock sticks and I heard him turning his key . |
| 5 | Normally I 'd wan na come off when I 'd run outa money and I 'd got nothing else to do 'cos I 've never gone robbin' or anythin' like that . |
| 6 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 7 | I was sitting in the car park and I appreciated the area very much , it was nice , clean area but when I came to Walsall it was smoky and dirty area I 'm sorry to say that and er , but I had no alternative but to stay here because my father was here , I had no money and er , I thought because of relations job prospects might be better here than elsewhere . |
| 8 | David asked if I could jive and at this particular time I always dressed as a man , which was probably another reason Calvin and I got along very well because Calvin wore velvet suits and I wore velvet suits — so that was one area we got on very well . |
| 9 | So I got down on my knees in the car showroom and I said : ‘ I want you , Lord Jesus , to come into my life . ’ |
| 10 | The vestal virgins had gone for a tea break and I sat down thankfully in the cool of the ruins and closed my eyes . |
| 11 | Well he 's got a lot of fishing equipment and I said you 're a keen fisherman then , all walk in |
| 12 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 13 | I really wanted to meet people I felt far more at ease with and at that time it was the still the punk era and I met a lot of other people who were into that . |
| 14 | She was asleep on a chair in the living room and I decided the most effective way to wake her would be to sing . |
| 15 | As I entered , a man came out of a side room and I knew immediately he must be Long John . |
| 16 | Down below were lots of fishing boats and I decided to wait until they returned to the harbour . |
| 17 | Her husband died in a car accident and I had to go and tell his wife . |
| 18 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 19 | I was fortunate : the ward had two small side rooms and I had one of them . |
| 20 | The night before the interview Ron and I motored down to Romsey , and after an excellent dinner punctuated by more of Ron 's awful stories and a good night 's sleep , set out for Broadlands next day . |
| 21 | We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful . |
| 22 | In September 1977 , my girlfriend Lynn and I eloped and tried to get married at the Ali-Shavers bout . |
| 23 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 24 | I bought a Volvo estate care from the Oxford Used Car Centre and I had done rather quite high mileage which I sort of did n't really look at the mileage when I bought it . |
| 25 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was induced because of high blood pressure and I had a pessary at midday . |
| 27 | For what good it was going to do me , I was fairly sure that these two were on the other end of the lead poisoning Connors and I had nearly contracted . |
| 28 | I woke up and grinned , remembering that it was the half term holiday and I did not have to go to school . |
| 29 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 30 | I asked for certain research facilities and I got them . |