Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pers pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 2 | Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’ |
| 3 | When you asked how Tom and the children were , you must have thought it odd that I told you what Tom , and Alison and Cheryl were doing without really mentioning Peter . |
| 4 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 5 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 6 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 7 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 8 | She told me no one seemed to be wearing jumpers with the car 's name on them , so I made her one without charge . |
| 9 | Why such a bizarre notion should have entered her head I can not imagine , but I did not like to disillusion her , so I told her what I could . |
| 10 | Did n't want to talk to me , so I told her she 'd have to wait . ’ |
| 11 | By that time they were bad , so I told her I thought I was having a miscarriage . |
| 12 | I knew my family would not like my going , so I told them I was going walking in Austria . |
| 13 | ‘ The guy tried to trip me up , so I told him what I thought . |
| 14 | He said he was a Bill Francis , so I told him we had a General Francis talking to Mum in the sitting-room , and he seemed ever so surprised ! |
| 15 | ‘ So I told him it was over . |
| 16 | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him , so I told him his English was very good . |
| 17 | Understandably , he was curious as to the reason for my enquiries , so I told him you were a distant relative , a spinster who had no other relatives and who might wish to get in touch with him . |
| 18 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 19 | I 've never been very good at rejecting people , so I told him I was frigid . |
| 20 | This was very promising indeed and Paul , the breeder , sounded like a really nice , caring sort of chap , so I told him I was very interested , and would call with a definite answer in a few days . |
| 21 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 22 | But there was not time to prepare this seminar , so I gave it myself , with one of my graduate students repeating my words . |
| 23 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 24 | And I ordered him one . |
| 25 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 26 | And I thought it you know |
| 27 | And I said I you tell me if I 'm happy . |
| 28 | It was quite easy , for she was standing at the front of the Council House talking to a large policeman and when Dad and I reached them he said , ‘ There you are Mrs. Maidment , I knew he 'd turn up like a bad penny ! ’ |
| 29 | Soon after Bogie joined us and I asked him what was going on . |
| 30 | ‘ I am not what you think I am , ’ and I asked him what he thought I believed him to be . |