Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After I became involved we came up with denim products , which had great success for ladies ’ fashions . |
| 2 | ‘ Then you would n't say no if I asked to take you in my arms under the pretext of inviting you to dance . ’ |
| 3 | I asked to see him , but they said no . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 5 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 6 | The youth hostel was closed , the only shop was disguised as a garage and had no window , a local quaker family had helped to close the only pub in the village in the 1950s , and a farmer I asked said he had none . |
| 7 | And , and , I asked did you have a perm done and she said no . |
| 8 | I asked to meet her . |
| 9 | I asked to keep her talking , but I was thinking of the scribble on the photocopies I 'd found . |
| 10 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 11 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 12 | I valued his judgement highly , and look back with pleasure to the several visits I made to him-and his equally delightful wife Elizabeth at their cottage in Cambridge where he was a fellow of Churchill College . |
| 13 | ‘ Now I am very happy with the decision I made to sign him . |
| 14 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 15 | I 'ad to meet 'im after I 'd 'ad me look around . |
| 16 | Well , 'e give me 'alf-a-crown , so I 'ad to pay me dues in the way of informin' 'im . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's had a fever and now she wo n't let me out of her sight , so I 'ad to bring her . ’ |
| 18 | I lived to regret it . |
| 19 | Frankenstein entered between the grey walls , and I ceased to follow him . |
| 20 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 21 | The team , when I met met them , had some banners made by base Christian communities in all parts of the world . |
| 22 | Over the summer , the Secretary of State and I met to encourage them to adopt best practices in dealings with their tenants . |
| 23 | Several experts who I consulted tell me that he 's being modest again . |
| 24 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I tell you , Charles , it was only after I heard that they 'd signed up Micky Banks that I agreed to do it . |
| 26 | My inclination was to decline , but as that would have been discourteous in the extreme to Wilson , for whom I then had enormous respect , I agreed to see him . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew you were n't going to believe me , but it seemed only fair that you should know why I agreed to marry you . ’ |
| 28 | I agreed to help you out tonight , but that was all I agreed to . |
| 29 | But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands . |
| 30 | I was determined , so I agreed to pay it back every week . |