Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] i [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 2 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 3 | He hit me in the face with the gun ; an inefficient , glancing blow with more chaotic anger than directed malice behind it ; I fell down , correspondingly , more because I felt I ought to than because I was actually knocked out . |
| 4 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 5 | But I felt I should of worn it out of the material . |
| 6 | I knew I should of laid that bloody nine and |
| 7 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 8 | I told her I was scared to go home but I thought I ought to , and of course she said , ‘ You 'd be best to come here , then , and when you feel like it , we can phone your parents and tell them whatever you want them to know . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I ought to . |
| 10 | Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists . |
| 11 | It was n't vital to come but I thought I ought to . |
| 12 | I thought I 'd at least get some sympathy from you , ’ Laura moaned , suddenly feeling that the whole world was against her . |
| 13 | I thought I used to I used to say to her sometimes I 'll have to go off story . |
| 14 | I thought he were gon na forget that , I thought I should of got up and told everybody at the front |
| 15 | I said I would by no means submit to such injustice and was glad to hear my own voice steady and confident , for I feared my lips might again be sewn into silence . |
| 16 | Yes and I said I would in a minute darling alright ? |
| 17 | said I 've no qualms about 'em , and yet he 's , somebody that votes for bloody Green Party , eh , he 's just been up and voted for Green Party , I said I 'd of stopped at home if I was you |
| 18 | I wished I 'd of done when I lost all my weight |
| 19 | I wished I 'd of stayed a bit longer now and had another look around |
| 20 | Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er |
| 21 | she said I could of |
| 22 | he said I might to town today . |
| 23 | I said he said no , I said why you want against her , he said yeah , he said what and he said I would of got up and actually run . |