Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found much that I identified with , the old lady looking in the TV shop window , enjoying all channels , one assumes , the ‘ Eye-drop ’ queue in the hospital . |
| 2 | Then — unimaginable the strangeness of it , the shock of it — the sound swelled again and I knew beyond doubt what was being sung up there . |
| 3 | I went into one house and er you so I came in and I got to about sort of I do n't know , roughly there I think it was and she said , do you have any objection to cats ? |
| 4 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
| 5 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 6 | Well I er I came back because I thought to myself |
| 7 | One of the most interesting cases that Maureen came across that I knew of was a peregrine falcon . |
| 8 | I definitely , I do n't really think I got more than I did in the end of year , last year one , I think I got forty percent in that |
| 9 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 10 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 11 | The barn shook again as I got to my feet and made my way to the door with the feeling that the barn had been very lucky so far in not receiving a direct hit from one of the frequent mortar bombs that were exploding in and around the farm . |
| 12 | Er , and I got up and I protested about it , on the grounds that if they could n't run a great big pop hall for , and I wholly agreed with the idea , of of them providing the facility . |
| 13 | She pulled backwards if I spoke to her and lay down in the grass at every opportunity , refusing to move . |
| 14 | Some hours later , after a torrential thunderstorm , the wriggling foot , that had been kicking in very strange places , finally broke through and I soke at five in the morning with a warm , wet feeling . |
| 15 | And this is how I started off before I got into trouble . |
| 16 | ’ His words trailed off and I went into his office . |
| 17 | Suddenly shots rang out and I realized with fright that Janotte was shooting at us . |
| 18 | I had a tremendous struggle to keep my medication the whole time I was in Holloway , and it started again when I went to Styal . |
| 19 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 20 | The liner went in with no hassle at all , and I was grateful for Absat 's superior flexibility when the hose went on and I went into the rapidly filling hole to smooth out the creases . |
| 21 | So life went on and I adapted to my new country , to living as a black youngster in a white-dominated society . |
| 22 | Yeah , well , I went down and I said to after the eng the engineer had seen it , he said like |
| 23 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 24 | There were two Frenchmen in the corner with shifty eyes and scarred faces who looked away when I stared at them , and a friendly Scandinavian with a tan and fine blond hair who shook my hand and said , ‘ France fucking shit , yes ? ’ |
| 25 | So anyway , I went through and I said to could I speak to the manager ? |
| 26 | The journey back to London went quickly as I mulled over the strange background to Froggy Davies ' death . |
| 27 | My relief grew rapidly as I warmed to the theory . |
| 28 | The starter called us to our marks , we got set , the gun went off and I dawdled on the blocks . |
| 29 | Malc reappeared round the door , looked at me over the top of his specs and reached out and I walked towards his outstretched arms on liquid legs . |
| 30 | Moreover , my mother , who worried even if I travelled to London , was initially distraught by the idea . |