Example sentences of "[vb base] i [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 2 | yeah , yeah I mean I 'd thought about it for ours |
| 3 | You see my , my point was I 'd , I mean I kept saying to her , has this got to take place ? |
| 4 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 5 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 6 | you see , like , I mean I started staying at home on Saturdays and , I do n't do nothing , if Tony comes home and says he wants to go out I get it ready then otherwise I just plan on staying home |
| 7 | They did n't talk to me I mean I did talk to they because |
| 8 | I mean I did go to Denman , but I was n't very well at the time and I did n't get round the house so I would like to go myself . |
| 9 | Because I was insistent I want I want I wanted to speak to Rod and er I said no I when is con when is it convenient to ring back then cos he said he 's got the phone glued to his ear blah blah . |
| 10 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 11 | Because of the problems we could have had due to heat stroke I elected to walk with the group carry 50 litres of water . |
| 12 | His smile was so elfin I was reminded of a troll and a performance of Peer Gynt I had seen at the Maddermarket in Norwich . |
| 13 | It seemed to me that in Mr White Face I had stumbled upon an evolutionary path paralleling — rivalling — our accepted one ; that this path sprang from a small ground mammal ( possibly tusked ) very different from the arboreal tarsier-like creature from which Homo sapiens has developed . |
| 14 | ‘ Dr Armitage , I confess I had hoped for a little more from someone who knew Dr Wetherby so well and was resident at the same convention . |
| 15 | ‘ You remember I had to get in a barman to help with drunks and keep a bit of law and order about the place ? |
| 16 | Satan 's back in and I suddenly remember I got to look after him . |
| 17 | ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ? |
| 18 | He says Well you 're quite right n y I Cos I did n't think we You know I 'd said to the man already it 's quite possible I would n't be able to really take the stuff out of store for him . |
| 19 | I know I had to explain to somebody in Chambers the other day something to do with the Corpus that it was n't where was the story there was n't a story |
| 20 | you know I did say to Brian |
| 21 | Because there are no expressions of regret afterwards , I assume I felt entitled to some sort of reward . |
| 22 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 23 | To be honest , I suppose I did want to , but … well , Madeleine was very young and uncertain of herself , her feelings . |
| 24 | And suppose I did get through all they 'd say is it 's nothing to do with them they were n't even in the Company at that time — and how many of them were ? ’ |
| 25 | Yeah I just I guess I had hoped to be pleasantly surprised that it was n't rhetoric |
| 26 | I guess I needed to fall in love with something . |
| 27 | I took out some of the bread and cold meat roll I had brought as my supper . |
| 28 | ‘ I think I got trapped into that statement . |
| 29 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 30 | Friends I think I started writing in 1988 and I just worked and worked on it . |