Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I asked for cream when I came here . |
| 2 | She smelled of booze and I adored her . |
| 3 | ‘ In my last year at school another teacher roared with laughter when I said I wanted to be a professional footballer . |
| 4 | I started shaking and my shoes squeaked with apprehension as I shuffled on the lino . |
| 5 | And he was n't in today I mean came into work and I passed out in the . . |
| 6 | But then when I got glasses suddenly the whole world came into focus and I thought , ‘ So that 's what it 's all about , is it ? ’ |
| 7 | I filled with pride as I watched people puzzled over the band names I scribbled in my notebook . |
| 8 | Then I met another girl , an art student , who delighted in conversation as I did . |
| 9 | I sighed and lingered over coffee because I know I 'd be in for a long session while I listened to June 's catalogue of woes . |
| 10 | ‘ But , unfortunately , this undesirable side to your brother 's character only came to light after I 'd hired you . |
| 11 | It all came to light when I travelled from Bradford to London to take part in a television programme about multiculturalism . |
| 12 | That exchange came to mind as I watched Gavin Scott 's Horizon , British science — on the wrong track ? |
| 13 | Many other themes came to mind when I started thinking about holiday pictures . |
| 14 | I recognised at school that I had the talent to become a politician when , at the end of a particularly bad term , the headmaster wrote on my report , ’ One can not help but be quite captivated by him , provided one gives him no work to do . ’ |
| 15 | I did well , I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this and I paid for coal and I 've got forty . |
| 16 | I felt exhausted when I climbed into bed and I fell into a deep sleep from which I awoke next morning refreshed and happier . |
| 17 | ‘ My distress turned to amazement and I went home quite convinced that all would be well . ’ |
| 18 | I was delighted to be informed that I was one of the prize winners , but my delight turned to disappointment when I realised just what accepting the prize would involve . |
| 19 | Proud until I took the tools from the display card and then pride turned to disappointment for I had expected that the tools would be scaled down versions of Dad 's but the saw was just a piece of tin stamped out — it would n't cut paper and the hammer was similarly made . |
| 20 | Erm and from that moment I got into hospital and I had no more trouble . |
| 21 | She twinkled with pleasure as I wove a windmill-tilting , dragon-vanquishing saga of my quest for the frothy and elusive grail . |
| 22 | Cos when he knocked on door and I thought oh I wonder if it 's that parcel midi hi-fi system I 'm |
| 23 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 24 | This was typified by the television commentaries , which I heard on video when I returned to Britain . |
| 25 | She got in trouble when I got home . |
| 26 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 27 | Miss Hinkle watched with disapproval as I snapped the case shut . |
| 28 | You see there 'd been the nineteen fourteen eighteen War , then there 'd there was the strike , and er I started to work and I had to go to work . |
| 29 | It was their own idea , started without help before I began my work as an adviser and I want to try and help them make it a success . |
| 30 | A lot of them also stand on the part that covered by Street And I know Street has got a tenant 's action group against prostitutes . |