Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [coord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I said she was n't here , he asked where she was and I said Maidstone and he said she 'd moved and I said then I did n't know but he could leave the flowers here for Frank but he would n't . |
| 2 | Of course , a bit later still Granny Tremayne said she 'd drowned and I thought : serve her right . |
| 3 | I said bye then see you sometime , bye and I put the phone down , and she said what does she want then and I said oh she wanted to know where , you know she 'd gone and I said oh I have n't seen her all week you know after , while we was hanging , she was hanging pictures , erm , she come through , she said oh they look wonderful she said I 've got pictures she said , I want my mountain put up in my lounge , with that June burst out laughing , Neil went through and he , he put her pictures up and he was gone there , he said , god he said , you know literally it 's a day to hang pictures , I said well do n't worry about it , you know , that 's what he said to do |
| 4 | Now this other girl came down one Saturday morning and we had a letter to say that I 'd passed and I said well , so have I . |
| 5 | I was gon na say er somebody told me that he 'd left and I thought it was you cos nobody would . |
| 6 | I heard you 'd left and I had business over here . ’ |
| 7 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 8 | I asked , as the rain had stopped and I wished to see more of Killala Bay . |
| 9 | That was one night after we had stopped and I stayed on and me and the assistant engineer just hooked that up together . |
| 10 | The drainage dyke was probably half way down the 1000 metres I had expected and I have easily , in the past , landed the aircraft inside 400 metres . |
| 11 | My turn to die had come and I had been inexplicably reprieved . |
| 12 | My attackers had scattered and I assumed that a teacher was approaching along the corridor . |
| 13 | I was as surprised as he was at what time had revealed but I did not join in when his boyish enthusiasm took hold . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 15 | After he 'd gone Dad said he would consider what Mr Vulcan had said but I knew already what I wanted and I knew Dad would n't object . |
| 16 | I almost ignored his last words because I was still thinking about Billingsley 's dishonesty , but then I realised just what McIllvanney had said and I frowned . |
| 17 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 18 | It was actually obvious that a burglary had occurred but I refused to take it in . |
| 19 | Erm by this time the mother er in the other room erm had emerged and I helped bring the other children into the er main main room . |
| 20 | We can not sell the property in Kent to Mr Cooper as we had hoped and I fear that unless I go down there myself the business will languish . |
| 21 | My giddiness had gone and I felt happy and relaxed , as if I was being carried along on a slow , peaceful current . |
| 22 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 23 | But er there was a lot there was a lot of girls and th I do n't know what had what had happened but I mean , that was the worst thing , he 'd went up in the lift and there was quite there was some other the rest of the people in the lift er was trapped and was burned to death you know , tragic end . |
| 24 | At first I thought the unlikely had happened and I had a fan out there somewhere . |
| 25 | He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago . |
| 26 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 27 | My fever had returned and I took to my bed . |
| 28 | Anyway his father was there and his father had paid and I said no you know , you 've done that . |
| 29 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 30 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |