Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | but I , I 'd never get them done , and I mean I 'd fed Matthew and I shouted down and I said look you 'll have to come and get him dressed cos I 've got dinners to put up yet |
2 | I got myself invited along as I wanted to find out what drove him to travel all the way from Surrey to South Wales nearly every weekend . |
3 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
4 | It bounced up and I turned to see the ball hovering above my stumps . |
5 | Later I found out that I had appeared fierce and unapproachable . |
6 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
7 | I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too . |
8 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
9 | Now the funny thing about it , when I took metallurgy I got , I , I got all this process I knew all about it you know , and er I had it the theory explained to me then , but er I was in the Bell one day about twenty years ago and an old boy came in and I started talking to him and he says , I bet you do n't know what I am ? |
10 | I thought I 'd seen something like it before but the woman came over and I had to move away before I could look at it more closely . |
11 | I 'd gone off of it until we opened that one on Sunday when you came over and I 'd finished it by Tuesday , I was getting quite hooked on it |
12 | When the lights came up and I turned to ask his reactions , I found him sitting speechless , tears coursing down his cheeks . |
13 | to until erm until when I came back after I 'd spoken to my parents that weekend . |
14 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
15 | I came here because I wanted to get away , only … ’ |
16 | I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money . |
17 | ‘ The lease for the tenancy of the flat in Charles Street arrived yesterday and I have signed and returned it to the agent , ’ he told Alice . |
18 | I then replied loftily that I wished to make ‘ a certain suggestion to him ’ . |
19 | Cos , did n't gon na say know when Jessica got up cos I 've got pretend erm got up for the erm |
20 | Well you know where Penny 's old desk were , where she sat looking up towards the , and Jenny sat there and Joan sat there , this Janet was sitting there and on that Friday morning when the phone had rung , well I got up and I went to go upstairs to take something or a fax coming for me or something , and as I went past Lynnette hit me on my shoulder and she said it 's me Pat , Pat she said it 's me , oh Pat I said what 's , what 's going on ? |
21 | oh well that was good , I 'm , I just thought though yesterday when I got up and I 've seen the weather , good grief Jimmy 's never gon na go out in this like you know |
22 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
23 | ‘ I only popped in because I 'd heard you were in town . ’ |
24 | fucking , fucking crap and as I was saying that my voice broke and I walked off and I started crying |
25 | And barn owls are very inquisitive , as I discovered later when I began to take Dawn out into the fields . |
26 | Either I 'd counted wrong or Cawthorne walked faster than I 'd thought . |
27 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
28 | ‘ I jumped out of my seat , my headphones flew off and I started giving her mouth-to-mouth . |
29 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
30 | I worked out that I had walked thirty-two miles the previous day and night . |