Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they did , because they were all drunk as well , and that 's how I got where I am today . |
| 2 | I 'm going down the steps three weeks ago , and er one of them front me , the other behind me but how I tripped up I do n't know . |
| 3 | He wanted to pay the TV licence , although it was n't due until July , and sent off a post-dated cheque which , incidentally , was how I found out they do n't accept them . |
| 4 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 5 | Mind you last Monday when I got home they was all up . |
| 6 | I was in hospital three weeks , when I got home I was uselss . |
| 7 | Every month when I came on we would say , never mind , next time . |
| 8 | but most days but erm and the bar 's right across the door and last week when I went out they still had er er one or two bits of Christmas stuff in the one window and some balls of er in there . |
| 9 | ‘ All right , thank you , ’ Dorothy would say when I asked how they were keeping . |
| 10 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 11 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 12 | But as my historical data grew I discovered , from other sources , statements which contradicted the statements of the local historian and in most cases when I checked carefully I found that he was inaccurate . |
| 13 | There were many times when I wondered why I had agreed to research and write this book — it was anything but straightforward — more like doing a jig-saw puzzle without seeing the picture . |
| 14 | ‘ They were strong brands when I arrived so I have n't created anything new . |
| 15 | ‘ They said ‘ we want you to read this statement into that TV camera ’ and that was when I found out I was going to be hanged . ’ |
| 16 | However I thought well I 'm , I 'm er |
| 17 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 18 | At the age of sixteen , cos there was hardly anybody else at the place where I lived so it went down to sixteen year olds . |
| 19 | From where I stood outside it I could see the Channel and the town of Boulogne set around the port . |
| 20 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 21 | I mean about the job , that 's why I got fast you see ? |
| 22 | Well that 's why , that 's why I said well we would |
| 23 | Good luck to them , I 'm not convinced in my own mind and I mean we 've interviewed these people that there are people internally ready yet , that 's why I said perhaps we should |