Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cantona being the more obvious example , but I cant remember one sale where I thought we got a decent price . |
| 2 | Then wasps ; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest . |
| 3 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 4 | ‘ No , it is n't Matthew , although I pray he made the right decision . ’ |
| 5 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 6 | My mother 's family came from England , so I felt I had a sense of searching out my identity . |
| 7 | My mother 's family came from England , so I felt I had a sense of searching out my identity . |
| 8 | The Beeb were obviously suffering withdrawal symptoms as Scum were nt on Manc of the Day — So I reckon they arranged a ‘ sportsnight ’ specially last night . |
| 9 | The head jerked , just the once , to the left , so I reckon it heard the ‘ phone . ’ |
| 10 | I was much younger than Hywel , so I suppose he bore the brunt of it , but I do n't remember him complaining . |
| 11 | ‘ So I decided I needed a solid-body guitar for regular playing , and this friend of mine had this Firebird . |
| 12 | ‘ There was a time when I intended to fight — perhaps I still would if I thought I had a chance and if I ever saw either of them , but it 's hard to fight for a man as elusive as Roman has become . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If I thought I had no choice . |
| 14 | ‘ Depends — I mean , if I knew I had a team coming of course I 'd tell her . |
| 15 | If I said I needed a member of the cast to be doused with a bucket of water , he would be the first to volunteer ; he was game for anything . |
| 16 | You know they must be you know and a certain amount of guilt maybe that they that they did n't support the miners or you know it was something that was happening far away and maybe y like I said you gave the odd tin of beans you know but er |
| 17 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |
| 18 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 19 | I du n no what the situation with Andrew is , cos I mean I heard the rumours that he was gon na for Cheam . |
| 20 | I said well no I cos I said I expected a co I think she deserved a more than a commended . |
| 21 | And you see , they were , she was crying and everything and wanting out cos I think she thought the rabbit was gon na bite her . |
| 22 | Because I said I liked the immortal Bix Biederbecke he obviously thought I was avant garde and beyond redemption . |
| 23 | Not that I 'm complaining because I realized they had a job to do , but they were all firing their questions at once , and I do like to give a civil , considered reply . |
| 24 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 25 | I think I took drugs to escape my problems , because I thought I had the world on my shoulders for a number of reasons . |
| 26 | I avoided the chocolate cake because I thought it looked a little sickly . |
| 27 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 28 | Erm , unfortunately lately she 's erm , stopped drinking because I think she had a drink problem , no she 's just being trying quite to cut down , no she 's being really good |
| 29 | You see it 's it 's high whereas I mean I bought a high bed , but even my bed 's not as high as that . |
| 30 | Before I left I took a half-pound packet of sulphonamide from the car boot . |