Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the driver I knew where we were going without being told . |
| 2 | " 10 is for the shit I blew over you and 10 is for the shit I am just about to blow over you , Good-day sir . " |
| 3 | But of course I knew where she was , and that she was calling at Genoa . |
| 4 | If I get the result I wanted there is consolidation rather than extension of my committee skills , but if I do not get the result I wanted then I have learned something and I form a new hypothesis about my next interjection strengthened by this new learning . |
| 5 | Yes , said , so the agreement between us was made signed in blood I thought then I shook hands with him the signature faded before he left the yard . |
| 6 | to do these at home I said well it had been twenty hours or nothing cos me and my old man do n't speak ! |
| 7 | I hoped the dogs would be in the garden but the moment I stepped inside I was surrounded by five of the massive dogs . |
| 8 | The moment I got back I realized that things had changed . |
| 9 | That 's a good job I found now you said it was a letter head paper , well that ai n't a letter head paper ! |
| 10 | In imperfect German I explained why I was there . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was an accountant I knew when I was going to be busy well in advance . |
| 12 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 13 | but for the tree I thought well I 'm gon na make some I 'm gon na make six , like the colouring we did erm the erm wa black , red and white |
| 14 | The day I came here I 'd gone down to Age Concern — I used to go there for meetings and bingo — and I told them I was n't stopping because I 'd no money . |
| 15 | On the day I got out they picked us up in a taxi at the prison and then we went to the hospital to pick him up . |
| 16 | never liked her , she knew it and all , and that last day I walked out I said bye , bye Debbie , she said , she went , she got in , in the car quick |
| 17 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 18 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 19 | When I read your page I felt like I was listening to a Party Political Broadcast of the Labour Party . |
| 20 | Anyhow , the next morning I got up they were all over the deck , they crawled out of the bloody bucket . |
| 21 | how , how well they 've enjoyed it this morning I thought well I wished I 'd made the effort |
| 22 | I would have picked number one you see and erm of course there was the er I knew the name Barbara erm and knew she 'd got a shop called Hitched in Northampton er er anyway when I was in the library I thought well I 'll just see if Hitched is in the telephone book you see , and it was . |
| 23 | With the sort of the interpretation I took on it . |
| 24 | So my said , Ooh you know what if it does n't you you know you 'd have none for next term sort of thing I said well I 've got quite a few for next term still . |
| 25 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 26 | The other thing I wondered when I was watching the video , you sat there at one stage , while I was writing and I thought , I thought , what are you thinking ? |
| 27 | I said well you just have to give him the deaf ear I said otherwise you 'll become , I said and he 'll get caught out eventually |
| 28 | If you think of the environment Gerry Conlon was in when he was wrongfully arrested — that world of squats and lodging houses and casual labour — that 's the world I knew when I was younger . |
| 29 | As you know it , this is the last I 'm sure everyone 's aware it 's the last item on your agenda when I was looking at the agenda this item was before the fox hunting motion I thought well it 'd be nice to have a debate before the fox hunting motion because we would have er a full house of people who I 'm sure would be very interested to hear the discussion on V A T. As matter of fact I 'm sure they would w w would welcome the opportunity to have a de , a discussion , but it seems they have gone and I got , I got it wrong Chairman when you by taking the the the fox hunting motion it should really have , have held on till this time in the evening . |
| 30 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |