Example sentences of "[adj] and i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 2 | So , I played this and I taught myself and I had , I played at England and all over for oth , a ladies team , played a on a man 's team and er , the we , the west and that , . |
| 3 | she told them that , that 's mine , she told them that I did n't think much of this and I thought it was a rip off |
| 4 | I knew this and I knew it was a weakness in him and I should not put up with it . |
| 5 | Er the market traders er are up in arms about this and I found them er in the process of trying to get a petition together but it it was n't put together right , they were just getting people to sign blank pieces of paper . |
| 6 | But at least my goals were clear and I knew what I wanted . |
| 7 | This time he seemed ill at ease and jumpy and I noticed his face was slick with perspiration when he spun to greet me . |
| 8 | And God was faithful and I passed my exams . |
| 9 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
| 10 | I felt my hand touch something feathery and I pulled it out to see what it was . |
| 11 | So I went rushing round to a friend of mine who fortunately had some and I said I want to see your walking , and I was much comforted to discover that they do actually use all six legs . |
| 12 | However , a few newspapers were interested and I found myself giving about a dozen interviews . |
| 13 | Driving to Glasgow I wondered how easy it was to get lost and end up in Wales or Norfolk or somewhere , but once it began , it was so exciting and I saw one could n't get lost , not even if one tried . |
| 14 | She looked at me unsmiling and I opened my mouth to protest that I was the last person in the world to take such a thing for granted , that I was the only person in the world who held a low opinion of sexual experience . |
| 15 | and it was quite tasty and I thought I 'd stick it in there |
| 16 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 17 | I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee . |
| 18 | I brought the duck I do n't want the duck so I said to her I got the duck but after good girl and she you 're alright with one thing and another and I said I told her I said I said to her when we were over there I said look , look you 're right if you like again so er warden came round |
| 19 | We put on a few and I knew I was finishing , so I thought I would try to go out with a bang by breaking the pavilion window in the Long Room . |
| 20 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |
| 21 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 22 | So I had a look at it from the outside and I changed my original opinion . |
| 23 | Fielding said it was a mob joint and I believed him : brocade , matt light , as quiet as a church . |
| 24 | These were lozenge-shaped and I remembered them particularly because they were decorated with golden love knots . |
| 25 | He was deadly serious and I knew it . |
| 26 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 27 | And I i , you know at six and I said my God he did that at Abbotsbury when he was four ! |
| 28 | He looked sad and I knew he did n't want her to leave but I also knew that he hated the constant uproar of quarrelling , so what was he to do ? |
| 29 | Although a lifelong Labour voter , influenced by the poverty she saw as a teacher , Mrs Hughes spoke of how Mrs Thatcher ‘ gave me a lovely tour of No 10 and I thought she was such a nice person ’ . |
| 30 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |