Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were glad to see me and they shook me by the hand and one of them said : |
| 2 | ‘ God , would you fancy me if I said I was ? |
| 3 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |
| 4 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 5 | They asked me if I wanted me P forty five framed or unframed . |
| 6 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Old Amos botched me when he made me from his seed . |
| 8 | Yes and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said . |
| 9 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 11 | ‘ I went to meet him and he took me on — now I go for lessons twice a week . ’ |
| 12 | Defender Gary Pallister said : ‘ It 's a bolt from the blue , I 'd never have guessed we were signing him if you gave me 300 goes . |
| 13 | gave me an unofficial interview at his cottage , but I offended him when I said I really wanted to study French ! |
| 14 | I would know it if you told me . |
| 15 | But to my dismay he said he 'd got a local caddie for Birkdale , and that he 'd misunderstood me when I said I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
| 16 | But they added them and nobody told me . |
| 17 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 18 | He told me that he meant me no harm , but was a magician , who had made the music play around me , and wished to have my hand in marriage and live in my castle , with me and my brother , in peace hereafter . |
| 19 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 21 | ‘ He told me that he loved me and that was it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Our Blessed Lord lies here , ’ she told me as she handed me altar cloths and corporals to iron . |
| 23 | I thought he was conning me when he told me his plan . |
| 24 | They had never seen me so they thought I was white . |
| 25 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 26 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 27 | Yeah she will but I said to Tracey I said one day Carla will beat her and she said I know she will . |
| 28 | ‘ I believed her when she assured me I would meet someone much more suitable when it was time for me to get married . ’ |
| 29 | And I told her and she said I did n't hear anything . |
| 30 | A great chance lost , for had I kept as careful a lookout in front as I had behind I should have seen her before she saw me . |