Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 2 | ‘ Come in here a bit , ’ she suggested as they came to her room , ‘ I 'd better tell you a secret . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think I 'd better tell you the whole story right from the beginning . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose I 'd better offer you a drink now that you 're here . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd better give her a ring , I suppose . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd better give her a hand or she 'll sulk . |
| 7 | I think I 'd better give you a course of broad-spectrum antibiotics . |
| 8 | but I mean you do n't think erm cos he said to me he said oh I suppose I 'd better buy you a Christmas present and I said yeah buy me something that I 'd use . |
| 9 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Constable Aplin and I came here to ask you a few questions about a certain matter . |
| 11 | " I came here to give her a present . |
| 12 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 13 | The evening ended with a Pirate Play and I went home thinking what a wonderful concert , as it probably was for an elementary school having no spare cash . |
| 14 | Anyway then I said are they interested in this quiz night , and she says I have n't go she says she 'd ask Jan , I said well give me a ring back a bit later . |
| 15 | I said just get her a bottle of you know |
| 16 | I said just give me the file on it . |
| 17 | I had also made myself a promise that ( a ) I would use up some of the many cones in the cupboard and ( b ) I would try out more of the built-in patterns in the 950i machine . |
| 18 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 19 | I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview . |
| 20 | ‘ I had never realised what a deeply uninteresting person I was . ’ |
| 21 | The Shah did no like Bakhtir - " I had always considered him an Anglophile and an agent of British Petroleum . " |
| 22 | I had always promised myself a Medau weekend or week course . |
| 23 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 24 | I had hardly eaten anything the day before . |