Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
2 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
3 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
4 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
5 | ‘ I began to yearn for you the moment you left , ’ he told her in return . |
6 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |
7 | I 'd come out on the simple camera-fetching errand without the complete zipped pouch of gadgets but I did have with me the belt holding my knife and the multi-purpose survival tool , and on the back of that tool there was a mirror . |
8 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
9 | Yeah , one look at him and even I had to say to myself the ladies , the poor ladies . |
10 | Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night . |
11 | During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant . |
12 | In Freudian terms , I had taken upon myself the typically female neurosis of hysteria along with the typically male one of obsessiveness . |
13 | The personal engagement encapsulated here is not , after all , wholly different from the introduction to that much more objective modern study , the justly acclaimed biography of Mary by Lady Antonia Fraser ; for Lady Antonia describes how ‘ being possessed since childhood by a passion for the subject of Mary Queen of Scots , I wished to test for myself the truth or falsehood of the many legends which surround her ’ . |
14 | I wanted to lay on him the burden of our fractured present . |