Example sentences of "be [adj] [coord] i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know I always said would n't it be lovely to be thin and I said thank God |
| 2 | ‘ You were cold and I had to get you warm . |
| 3 | Earlier I said that on the whole our food was not bad : salads , fruits and nuts were plentiful but I had taken on my parent 's tastes . |
| 4 | My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End . |
| 5 | He 's er he 's saying that er the shifting of the ground 's political but I 'd to remember him that er , th it 's the council that 's doing their job , he 's not doing his job . |
| 6 | The bail arm button at the front is responsive and I found gets better with use . |
| 7 | I know it 's easy but I had to think of something to finish the week off with . |
| 8 | If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side . |
| 9 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 10 | The road was wet and I kept telling him to go slower . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My father was German and I wanted to go out there to rebuild my life , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Once , when she was ill and I had to show the doctor in to see her , he was rather disconcerted to see the bedclothes on either side of Mrs Field appear to rise of their own accord — and four dogs emerged ! |
| 13 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 14 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 15 | He was unconscious and I tried to wake him up but I could n't . |
| 16 | ‘ I was tired and I had to leave at approximately five — in about two hours . |
| 17 | ‘ But I felt that the fine was harsh and I had to defend my integrity which has now been upheld . ’ |
| 18 | Hugo kept telling me my body was glorious and I had come to believe him . |
| 19 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 20 | But the view from the col was decisive and I stayed to indulge my vanity . |
| 21 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 22 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 23 | My Arabic was rusty but I had studied the language in the 1970s and knew the Gulf reasonably well . |
| 24 | Forty minutes later my neck was long , my hips were free , my knees were out , my back was wide and I 'd learned how to sit down . |
| 25 | It was non-competitive and I loved meeting people from all over the world , listening to their music and watching their dancing . |
| 26 | Wallace was threatening and on that day he was aggressive and I thought played pretty well overall but he was often fouled by the Blackburn defence . |
| 27 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 28 | I was frightened but I wanted to see , so I walked slowly towards the tree . |