Example sentences of "i [adv] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the last bar the cab was waiting remorselessly , the driver with his face averted , waiting to take me somewhere I did n't want to go . |
| 2 | Eyeing me suspiciously she said , ‘ Are n't we all ! ’ |
| 3 | Smiling at me politely he said , in his still slightly-accented voice , " Sit down , Miss Graham . |
| 4 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 5 | But my grandparents had worked at Drogo since it was built , so we 've had a long link with the Drewes ; the family put in a word for me so I got the job . |
| 6 | I did it , she said in a clear voice : I heard someone calling me so I got up and came downstairs . |
| 7 | yeah I 've got a lot of relations , I 've got twenty , twenty seven er grandchildren , that includes the great grandchildren , twenty seven which I have er to get something for all at Christmas it 's a pantomime I 've got stuff here and everywhere sorting out for them , cos my little grandson tonight is coming round to wrap them up for me so I got to mind I have n't , leave his present in the way otherwise he 'll know what he 's got yeah he 's got , I got a tape for him , he wanted a tape called Madness so I 've got him a tape for it so I 've had to put that out the way so he does n't wrap that up , no he comes and does them up for me tonight , and a friend Ian will help him as well , so you know it 's , it 's great really |
| 8 | No one seemed to want to serve me so I walked out and went home without so much as a plectrum ! |
| 9 | That sounded great to me so I opted for the hike . |
| 10 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 11 | I think my G P actually sent me further down hill into anorexia after I 'd lost about , about when I was seven stone I went to see her , I 'd never seen her before and she said well you look perfectly acc , sociably acceptable to me so I went on to lose two more stone before going back to see her and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency ! |
| 12 | The sounds were muffled from up on the roof but they still bugged me so I went indoors . |
| 13 | She kept talking over me so I told her to shut her face and cut her off . |
| 14 | The Lucan case intrigued me so I told the police that I would consider working on it . |
| 15 | You ask me so I told ya no point in arguing , you wo n't make a very good politician , shut up , sod off |
| 16 | She was the same size as me so I knew that her clothes would fit me . |
| 17 | Tony Curtis was standing next to me so I said I was there to try and collect money from Mr Curtis . |
| 18 | My family did n't like me so I had to work hard . " |
| 19 | Then in the end we came to a river so wide I could n't see the other bank ; I felt frightened and thought this must be the end of the race , and I wanted to stop , but Father plunged straight in without looking at me so I had to plunge in too . |
| 20 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
| 21 | And then I got all the she 'd mis-changed me so I had to go back and get it . |
| 22 | I said that that worried m that really sort of worried me so I rung her back anyway , she 's alright . |
| 23 | Now I was talking to Dad I wanted to tell him about how Mum and I had found Granny and what wicked things Mum had done , but I knew Mum 's eyes were on me so I thought better of it . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘ |
| 25 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 26 | They did n't notice me so I made myself unobtrusive and listened . |
| 27 | I have just read Kate Westwood 's letter in the February 92 issue of your magazine and the tone of it really saddened me so I felt I must reply . |
| 28 | The remote control for the television was next to me so I pressed the ‘ on ’ button . |
| 29 | He ignored the mop , just staring at me , and I saw him take a breath ready to defy me so I spoke before he could . |
| 30 | So I said , well come on you 've got ta be reasonable with me so I spoke to him last week and he says , look you did n't have one last year so I 'll give you two . |