Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : Our Blessed Lady asked me to ask you to have a small chapel built here in her honour . |
| 2 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 3 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 4 | ‘ But the Bookman asked me to keep our meeting a secret . |
| 5 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 6 | and I should warn you that once I was asked to go to a , a series of lectures in a certain cathedral on the seven deadly sins , because the Canon who invited me said he wanted a married man who was good on lust ! |
| 7 | and when we moved I think we had a new insurance policy to cover and the others became mine . |
| 8 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 9 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 10 | ‘ But when it went I thought I needed an operation . |
| 11 | Sorry I I thought I thought you quoted a price of a hundred and said that |
| 12 | I thought I heard him bring the cows in earlier but he 's grown so deaf he did n't hear when I called him . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I heard you say the Guild of Merchants ? ’ |
| 14 | I thought I saw somebody pass the window , ’ said Sophia . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I told you to do the potatoes ? |
| 16 | And er they used to come to me and ask things about what they should do and did I think they had a claim for this and that you know , and I used to tell them you see . |
| 17 | ‘ Why did I think I wanted a baby ? |
| 18 | ‘ Did I feel I had a point to prove ? ’ pondered Hastings . |
| 19 | The er bloke in there said did I know who owned the I noticed there was this little long haired sort of black and white or grey dog that was er tethered to a oh a lamp post or something outside . |
| 20 | My problem for God was , how did I get her to sign the form ? |
| 21 | He said I wish I had a hundred and twenty pound a week |
| 22 | er because I said I , I only phone Marion once a month and phone mum probably about once a fortnight , I do n't like to leave it any longer and erm and I said I know I made a few extra calls over Christmas , but I said I really do n't know . |
| 23 | I said I think you need a break . |
| 24 | He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break . |
| 25 | No but he had I mean he had a screen and er |
| 26 | I said well we had I said I had a bit of a run in with the lady who ran it , I did n't agree that he should be compelled to do singing which she thought he should I said and we had a decided it cos he . |
| 27 | Yes he had I think he had an intuition and an instinct and a feel for the common man . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought you wanted me to treat you like a sister ? ’ he threw over his shoulder . |