Example sentences of "[be] [conj] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , so there you are and I told them , he he said that he wanted erm a urine sample you see and so of course when the nurse come after he 'd gone , later and I kept waiting and I thought to myself well I want to know the result ! |
| 2 | I said if you said to me , Geoff , I want all the overtime I can get I can get the overtime I 'll go round and I 'll try and or if you say to me well I do n't want the overtime , I 'm quite happy with a flat week then I 'll know what I am but I said you change from day to day , one day you wann it , another day you do n't ! |
| 3 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 4 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 5 | Well it 's alright as long as it does n't get to be like I said it could , these are lovely stamps you know |
| 6 | ‘ How would it be if I returned your gift so that you can give it at the door ? ’ |
| 7 | He asked himself , I wonder what this old warrior 's reaction would be if I told him I had fallen in love with a married woman ? |
| 8 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 9 | Perhaps there used to be and I lost it . |
| 10 | I watched the smoky flame waver inside the place where the dog 's brains used to be and I closed my eyes . |
| 11 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 12 | He said it would just be until I got myself sorted out , and then I would get him back straight away . |
| 13 | I admit that I prefer the longer film , but that may be because I saw it first . |
| 14 | What she was doing is she was talking as a person who 's got a genuine love of the theatre as we all have that 's what were doing here looking for solutions now can I 'm I 'm as I said I 'm not assassinating your character now but you 're being very intimidating in the way that your talking to people . . |
| 15 | Ah yes , but now that 's very interesting because that 's not the same as was the old regulation with the H N D recognition with Napier , and it used to be as I understood it that you had to actually be in membership and leave a period of time between doing the certificate and the diploma . |
| 16 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 17 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 18 | An example I can cite is that I asked her to research and write up ( unsupervised ) an application to the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation for the microfilming of our 100,000 items in the Archive Collection . |
| 19 | The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself . |
| 20 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 21 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 22 | No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones . |
| 23 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 24 | my pain is that I knew you |
| 25 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
| 26 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 27 | You can break it but the thing is that I warned her , er , you know , as long as they get through to her hold on that that 's very nicely set up if she twiddles her |
| 28 | ‘ The pure and simple fact ’ , said Harris , ‘ is that I loved it . ‘ |
| 29 | That 's cos I told them . |
| 30 | Wan na swap it in your mum 's punny Yeah I know , it 's cos I stretched it when I wanked her . |