Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must be nearly in range by now , ’ I said to Jean as I turned back to channel 20 . |
| 2 | and did I tell you I bumped into Jean when I went down |
| 3 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 5 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |
| 6 | It was January before I came back . |
| 7 | Mind you any , I would n't wan na move from Stratford on Avon if I lived there to go and live further north . |
| 8 | I says probably Monday so I thought well I give it time any way in case you get in |
| 9 | I said nervously ‘ Oh , I thought perhaps you would teach me Mr Samuel if I came up to London for lessons ’ . |
| 10 | Erm I 'd like to see Eddie cos I did n't get to see him this time or last time . |
| 11 | ‘ It is better than my earlier victory over Terry Griffiths because I played much better , ’ said Higgins , who produced a mature break of 99 in the eighth frame to kill off Terry 's revival as he battled back from a 3-0 deficit . |
| 12 | Hankin said : ‘ I have had no contact from Cambridge since I took over . ’ |
| 13 | There was no mistaking his bulk , but I could have been fooled by Jo if I had n't known her . |
| 14 | We can make another baby , Herta and I. If I wept copiously both before and after , she let me do it , or try it , but I am impotent and do n't even go to the whores any more . |
| 15 | Oh give this to Mrs cos I walked off with it yesterday |
| 16 | Yes did n't buy any new ornaments when I was up in Liverpool cos I did n't see anything that I particularly liked but what Carla has done gives me an idea for making some extra bits for the tree Where did you get that from ? |
| 17 | ‘ How 's the bride ? ’ asked Lili when I came downstairs . |
| 18 | And , ’ he went on , before Marc could interrupt , ‘ you happened to be in Paris when I came over for them . |
| 19 | It would n't bother your brother one jot if I handed the place over to Harry when I got too old to manage it . |
| 20 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |
| 21 | ‘ When I joined Wednesday , I was staying with Jack until I sorted out a place of my own . |
| 22 | I did n't have to say shit to Jesus Christ if I did n't feel like it . |
| 23 | For a short time I was completely clammed up with Marian because I had never been allowed to talk about myself with my wife . |
| 24 | ‘ They searched the office again last night , ’ said Malcolm when I got back . |
| 25 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 26 | Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else . |
| 27 | ‘ You could come into Inverness and get the early bus back out to Ullapool in the morning … ’ offered Bill as I climbed down from my position of elevation and security . |
| 28 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 29 | it must have been Thursday because I did n't want him to come , I said to Jim , tell him not to come we 'll just turn the whole lot off . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been leading the life of Riley since I got away from the place . |