Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gloria and me went to see him once , ’ said Dot . |
| 2 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 3 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 4 | I was with him , holding the drip inside the bag , and I had to wrench him free and get out before we ran out of air . |
| 5 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 6 | I knitted myself a dress from that which started off fawn , but we ran out of that colour and I had to finish it off in blue . |
| 7 | I read it through as four pounds , and Brenda next to me is saying , fourteen and I had to re-read it , it , course it 's fourteen . |
| 8 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 9 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 10 | ‘ Funnily enough , I was doing a charity show two weeks ago to raise money for our local scouts and I had to sing it so I know there are four goolies in the song . ’ |
| 11 | Mind you these was instructions from the office to me , telling me what I , what they wanted and I had to carry it out . |
| 12 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 13 | Something happened and she just said it , then she hit me and I had to hit her back . |
| 14 | She was only little then and I had to hold her up so she could reach . |
| 15 | it was someone else that told me but told me not to tell anyone and I had to beg it out of him cos I just wanted to know . |
| 16 | aha , well I 'm , I 'm doing er couple of Oxos and I had to thicken it with some self raising flour , it was alright |
| 17 | And anyway I carried him half way along and I had to put him down |
| 18 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 19 | Bill made a determined effort to push me aside and I had to let him . |
| 20 | And I had to answer it . |
| 21 | ‘ You were screaming your head off , and I had to wake you . ’ |
| 22 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 23 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
| 24 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 25 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 26 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 27 | I mean we went to pick babe up five o'clock erm Saturday and I had to ring it were really freezing cold |
| 28 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 29 | ‘ My grandfather built it , my father ran it — and I had to dismantle it . ’ |
| 30 | True , everyone had hidden their supplies — buried them in the tobacco patch or the bottom of the grain chest — and I had to convince them that I was n't a forester . |