Example sentences of "the [noun] and i [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I said I 'll go round the back and I said I can get in through that window for ya , I said well I 'll have to force it , what d' ya mean force it ? |
| 6 | I was floating overhead — I was n't visible to the daleks and I thought I should come down and see what the Awful Warning was . |
| 7 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 8 | But the bills were dropping on to the doormat and I felt I had no choice . |
| 9 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 10 | ‘ Everything went well in the warm-up and I thought I just had to lob it out to qualify . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ He asked about the bureau and I said I had nowhere to put the things from it so he went into the wardrobe and cleared a shelf and said put it in there . |
| 12 | I got him every time , until the end and I said I am not serving him this time ! |
| 13 | The thing is I knew there was Meg Ryan in the film and I thought I 've seen that actor cos I 'm , I 'm always on about knowing faces and names and stuff |
| 14 | Well this th this is the the faces and I thought I 'd do the maps and the rest were questions I do n't know whether y should do some questions . |
| 15 | So this is the same idea and if there 's a star Something that I did see a wee while ago , I saw a f a light very close down to the horizon and I said I 've never seen a star so bright way down there . |
| 16 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 17 | And you just could n't absolutely see anything serving customer I was going to so , to move or change out my draw shutting it up , turning it off , going away and somebody else had come , he kept , kept , kept doing that and he was stood there all the time and I thought I thought you definitely wo n't get the job ! |
| 18 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 19 | Dholuo was the language and I knew I was an encumbrance until I could make myself understood . |
| 20 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |
| 21 | Then everybody said they saw The Graduate and I said I was Dustin Hoffman . |