Example sentences of "[det] [conj] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can .
2 So , I played this and I taught myself and I had , I played at England and all over for oth , a ladies team , played a on a man 's team and er , the we , the west and that , .
3 she told them that , that 's mine , she told them that I did n't think much of this and I thought it was a rip off
4 I knew this and I knew it was a weakness in him and I should not put up with it .
5 Er the market traders er are up in arms about this and I found them er in the process of trying to get a petition together but it it was n't put together right , they were just getting people to sign blank pieces of paper .
6 I never understood this until I realized he meant that his characters ' uselessness , indolence and longing were typical of the adults he knew when he was a child .
7 So I went rushing round to a friend of mine who fortunately had some and I said I want to see your walking , and I was much comforted to discover that they do actually use all six legs .
8 So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air
9 I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee .
10 I brought the duck I do n't want the duck so I said to her I got the duck but after good girl and she you 're alright with one thing and another and I said I told her I said I said to her when we were over there I said look , look you 're right if you like again so er warden came round
11 We put on a few and I knew I was finishing , so I thought I would try to go out with a bang by breaking the pavilion window in the Long Room .
12 ‘ I hope you do n't mind me arriving without an appointment like this but I understood you had an Open Door policy . ’
13 I was gon na buy some but I thought you usually buy some so
14 I was winding him up some because I thought he deserved it .
15 Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying
16 ‘ I bought this because I wanted something brightly coloured for winter .
17 I find I am not as pleased by this as I thought I might be .
18 Newman himself recounts what transpired : ‘ The scene went something like this when I demanded her presence in my office :
19 ‘ You were n't like this when I married you .
20 We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life .
21 ‘ It was like this when I bought it .
22 this was like this when I bought it off you
23 My difficulty in breathing was such that I clutched my throat .
24 And I just liked reading it so much that I thought you 'd like to read it too .
25 ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another .
26 Her comments alongside her weekly measuring sessions said so much that I felt you would enjoy reading them too :
27 Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival .
28 I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good .
29 ‘ Would you mind very much if I stretched my legs ? ’
30 It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less .
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