Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I went swimming in the sea . |
| 2 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 3 | He will recall that dealing with NIE and trying to bring electricity to Rathlin was not one of the easiest tasks that he or I had to undertake . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I found it more difficult to talk to him , somewhere he or I had changed . |
| 6 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 7 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 8 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 9 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 10 | Or I 'd thought of getting a teaching qualification — maybe starting my own commercial language school . ’ |
| 11 | You do n't often see photos of this I 've only ever found one , here 's one , or I did find one . |
| 12 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 13 | A more substantial objection is why neither Karen nor I had dived in to try and save Dennis . |
| 14 | Neither Brian nor I had told our mother about these beatings but now , incensed , I pulled up my shorts and showed him some half-healed scars . |
| 15 | They guarded their independence fiercely and neither Chris nor I dared ask too often how much progress was being made . |
| 16 | I thought oh , I thought it was like one of your tapes and I 'd pressed record and it had started recording over it . |
| 17 | I said to her : ‘ I saw you talking to that fellow , and I 'd warned you . ’ |
| 18 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 19 | His a terrible , so we did n't go near him right through on the playing field , and then Katherine , I found to get , I sat , found a way to get them near Matthew and then Katherine said , I tickled him on the back , and I 'd kept on doing that . . |
| 20 | He 'd been all set to save England and I 'd stopped him . |
| 21 | Er , gi I 've done that you know , when I were younger and I 'd strained a heart muscle ! |
| 22 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 23 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 24 | And I 'd seen every bird in Israel but one , the bar-tailed lark . |
| 25 | And I 'd seen a most delightful villa — do you know St-Tropez , Jean ? |
| 26 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 27 | I 'm by the window and I 'd seen Pickerage make his enticing little way there just a minute before . |
| 28 | So er there was this poor girl sitting on this seat and I 'd seen her there and so , there was a nice lady sat they said er they took the Redditch train off the thing and put this Shrewsbury on . |
| 29 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 30 | I 'd blacked my eyebrows till they were like tarmac , I 'd put raspberry-coloured gloss thick on my lips and I 'd done my eyelids in a limey shade of green . |