Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] i [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 2 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 3 | I spent so much time with them that I began to think like them , to see the world from their point of view . |
| 4 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah they got me and I had to turn into one of them octopus things . |
| 6 | Yet I knew there was something familiar about them , as if these ideas from far off generations had revived in me and I had come in contact with ancestral faces . |
| 7 | And my mum , my mum was sat in The Weathers with me and I 'd talked to her and everything and I did n't even know that that |
| 8 | There was something lying on the ground in front of me and I tried to jump over it , but my feet would n't leave the ground and I sort of waded through it . |
| 9 | Harvey spent a lot of time in the office and apart from asking me if I 'd spoken to Dawlish — a suggestion which I impassively denied — he did n't say much to me until the morning of the third day , which was a Tuesday . |
| 10 | Oh yeah we walked past park cos he asked me if I wanted to go on swings and it led up to his back gate , well , you 've never seen me put a sigh of relief on me face , I went |
| 11 | ‘ He seemed very worried and asked me if I wanted to go with him , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Then he asked me if I wanted to go from that place . |
| 13 | Now our Dawn told me cos I did say to her I said here I said er Bet did say that . |
| 14 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 15 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 16 | For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . |
| 17 | I could have told you if I 'd wanted to . |
| 18 | Like , he did n't point her out to me till I 'd gone past her . |
| 19 | When I saw his blue eyes open wide in surprise , I felt very sorry I had lied , and that evening , as soon as I found Joe alone for a moment , I confessed to him that I had lied about my visit to Miss Havisham . |
| 20 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 21 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I could n't have avoided it if I 'd wanted to . |
| 23 | He and I had met in Birmingham , Alabama , while he was news director of WBRC-TV and I was news director of WSGN radio . |
| 24 | If , by some appalling stroke of bad luck , he and I happened to bump into each other while we 're here — ’ He broke off . |
| 25 | That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years . |
| 26 | He asked me whether I had thought of taking it on , and if not why not . |
| 27 | ‘ He asked me whether I wanted to go to Borners . |
| 28 | Trench came up to me as I turned to walk down the corridor again . |
| 29 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 30 | And I used to get in when I was a young boy and see them when I started working on a farm I always to see them . |