Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] you [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh customers or I thought you said gostermers |
| 2 | You have told me you had a ticket to Miami to go and shoot herself and Jimmy Zaidie but you cancelled it , although I know you did go to Miami subsequently ( around Christmas time 1986 ) to carry out your threat . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’ |
| 4 | What happened was that I mean you made curtains er the rusty red was affected by light , so eventually you got a curtain where where the red spots had been there were holes . |
| 5 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
| 6 | ‘ I confess that I thought you 'd taken the boat . |
| 7 | No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones . |
| 8 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 9 | ‘ I wanted to say , you see , that I know you thought Frannie should n't have gone , and that it 's ruined your holiday plans , and , on behalf of us all , I 'm sorry . |
| 10 | Er well er the reason is I believe that I think you mentioned earlier that Chris is er in the same line of trade as you |
| 11 | Not if you 're gon na do that I want you covered up before you sit on my knee . |
| 12 | Er again after you do that very same thing erm you know jingle your change and one of them he said that I reckon you got three pound eighty . |
| 13 | ‘ The thing is , ’ he murmured , sending her a smile that managed to be wicked and appealing all at the same time , ‘ I 'm so used to trusting Simon completely that I forgot you did n't know him at all . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm afraid your uncle is very ill and will probably die soon , so I think you had better stay in England , until you receive further news of him . ’ |
| 15 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 16 | And I hope you did n't forget a rope . ’ |
| 17 | Well , however it struck you , it 's a slice of life and I hope you found it interesting enough just for that . |
| 18 | And I hope you found the talk informative , interesting . |
| 19 | Well you said you had and I remember you had . |
| 20 | That gap year between school and college was all very well , and I know you enjoyed beachcombing in Thailand , and even your spell in the bush , teaching Hottentots . |
| 21 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 22 | ‘ But before my brain got into gear after finding you 'd cleared the wardrobe in the lobby of your belongings and I realised you 'd gone , I went through half a dozen possibilities before I rang Reception . ’ |
| 23 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 24 | And I thought you felt as I did , that it was impossible for you to have a child . ’ |
| 25 | " I knew exactly why you did n't come and I thought you knew why I did n't come to you . |
| 26 | ‘ No , we were n't , and I thought you said you saw Lewis as he came back inside after talking to me ? |
| 27 | Yeah , and I thought you said that you 'd scrapped all that ? |
| 28 | Simon looked up surprised , even amused : ‘ And I thought you liked him ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And I thought you loved me . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And I thought you wanted to talk about mortgages , ’ said William . |