Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 2 | You ask me so I told ya no point in arguing , you wo n't make a very good politician , shut up , sod off |
| 3 | She kept talking over me so I told her to shut her face and cut her off . |
| 4 | Tony Curtis was standing next to me so I said I was there to try and collect money from Mr Curtis . |
| 5 | I said that that worried m that really sort of worried me so I rung her back anyway , she 's alright . |
| 6 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘ |
| 8 | They did n't notice me so I made myself unobtrusive and listened . |
| 9 | I have just read Kate Westwood 's letter in the February 92 issue of your magazine and the tone of it really saddened me so I felt I must reply . |
| 10 | cos he kept doing it to me so I did it to him . |
| 11 | She 'd seen her brother 's and she wanted to see if they all looked like that and she asked me so I showed her mine , but it was only if she 'd show me hers and she did as well . ’ |
| 12 | I mean they were there at lunchtime when I came home and there was nobody with them so I assumed they 'd knocked off for lunch . |
| 13 | That 's why I wanted to start them so I gave them back to him . |
| 14 | When you did n't speak to me straightaway I thought you 'd go off again without a word to me . ’ |
| 15 | I had to tell someone so I told her . |
| 16 | Could n't you see that I loved her when I s the moment I saw her , I just , I just I threw myself to her , I wanted to give her anything , even my life . |
| 17 | So I well I sent him er our sheets , er sheet about the group and the minutes and er I contacted Michael er , who said he 'll be very happy to help in , so I er phoned up this chap and said , gave him Michael 's number and said erm he 'd like to come to this meeting tonight , he said yes , so I went to pick him up and I just could n't find that blinking house , anyone who knows Harlow , he 's in Parsonage Leys , I just could n't find the number it was , I just could n't find anything less than thirty seven |
| 18 | said and done , mm , after all 's said and done course I well I said there 's good , bad , and indifferent everything cos I know some Masons who are blinking great rogues , you know ! |
| 19 | But I how I got there is a mystery ! |
| 20 | she says er oh she says do n't wait in , I says it 's alright do n't wait in , but I said if there 's nobody in I said they do n't get in |
| 21 | I goes , I du n no , but he was by himself so I set him up . |
| 22 | Would you rather I thrashed him within an inch of his life ? |
| 23 | It 's really horrible , but but Leave it , leave it on you so I left it on . |
| 24 | things so erm , I knew it was something , anyway so she said all this , I said right well I said I 'll tell you now I said you know I 'm biased because |
| 25 | She Well I thought she was good though . |
| 26 | Tell you how I brought myself up on Wells , Huxley and Shaw ; how I prefer George Eliot and even Thackeray to Dickens ; how I like Orwell , Hardy and Housman , and dislike the Auden-Spender-Isherwood crew ( preaching socialism as a sideshoot of homosexual law reform ) ; how I 'm saving Virginia Woolf for when I 'm dead . |
| 27 | Shows you how I made it you see , but now |
| 28 | ‘ The boy will tell you how I saved his life , ’ Silver said through the fence . |
| 29 | ‘ Get the drinks in and I 'll tell you how I did it . ’ |
| 30 | I 've already told you how I threw them into the river . ’ |