Example sentences of "the [noun] and i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 2 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 3 | ‘ He said he would kill her if I did n't hand over the money and I believed him . |
| 4 | A dense fog descended on the field and I found myself isolated at left-half marking the right winger — yes , it was some years ago ! |
| 5 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 6 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 7 | The chairman and I demonstrated what needed to be done and how we hoped to fund the re-equipment of polyester , when we had invested what was necessary from the nylon cash flow . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I had some work to do in the kitchen and I left them here . ’ |
| 9 | But luck , the storm and I introduced him to the Bomb , and that settled his game . |
| 10 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 11 | We were in a supermarket , I do n't know where it was but somewhere in the states and I told you I think they 're boast were sixty something varieties of peanut butter . |
| 12 | I 've seen the play and I thought it was quite like a farce . |
| 13 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |
| 14 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 15 | From its shelter the Corporal and I stuck our snouts up . |
| 16 | ‘ He jumped to the side and I missed him . |
| 17 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 18 | The old man turned the key and I saw my chance . |
| 19 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt it all in the car and I enjoyed it . |
| 21 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 22 | Hassan , who was usually with him in Abu Dhabi as well as England , manoeuvred into the rear seat of the Mercedes and I took my place beside the young son who had long since graduated into a licensed driver . |
| 23 | I thought it was rather grand to be going to supper on the boat and I wanted her to tell me all about it later but I never saw her again . |
| 24 | Gary player and Henry Cotton were two strokes behind us and the boss and I decided we were among the right sort of company . |
| 25 | It was about then that I noticed I could not touch the bottom and I felt myself going faster downstream than I was going across . |
| 26 | After a while he went out into the hall and I heard him pick up the thing that makes noises and which he talks into when there 's no-one here . |
| 27 | He pounded along the passage and I heard his shouts in the Kitchen " Tristan ! |
| 28 | " When these telegrams came I ran down and opened the door to the boy and I showed them to Mummy and she began very bravely , how lovely dear , and then began to cry and shut herself in her room . |
| 29 | And I said no , I was going to , she said I think you have , she said , because you 've moved the ballerina and I did I listened to it . |
| 30 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |