Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Apologies , my dear fellow , ’ said Mr Singleton , ‘ momentarily I failed to appreciate I was talking to an artist . ’ |
| 2 | When I got elected I got elected because the erm roads in this county were in a six hundred year repair cycle . |
| 3 | If I got stopped I 'm grabbing Albert and he 's coming down to get changed too ! |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | When I got married I was only seventeen and my husband was twenty-one . |
| 6 | Before I got married I was living in the London Palace and there was something like three hundred and sixty girls there . |
| 7 | and that cos when I got married I took it with me did n't I ? |
| 8 | And in China , usually , erm wedding is an important event in the family and an , when I got married I think my parents-in-law wo erm felt erm more excited than my husband and I ! |
| 9 | When and I got married I had to wear a size 16 wedding dress . |
| 10 | Before I got married I led a pretty lively existence where women were concerned , and enjoyed it to the full . |
| 11 | Before I got married I used to go a church twice a day . |
| 12 | Well before I got married I had this I had this fucking dream that we could n't get our hairs done , all the girls could n't their hairs done because nowhere was open . |
| 13 | Whe , the day I got married I was a thirty two A A |
| 14 | I got to admit I did n't pop over just to offer yer some neighbourly 'elp , it was on me mind while I was there to touch you for the loan of a bob . |
| 15 | Well that time that I got cayleyed I did n't realise I |
| 16 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried to pretend I was thoroughly involved with my career — as I am , of course , but you know what I mean . |
| 18 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 19 | I felt totally drawn into the piece as I recognised struggled I 've had with my own mother and my feelings of shame , and fear , talking about sex — the terrible silence that develops which no one attempts to break down for fear of the pain ‘ that ‘ conversation would bring ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Once I 'd gone I was asked to do a wide range of things but not because I was Chrissie Rogers but because of me Ethy Browne that has been the most satisfying aspect . |
| 21 | It seemed he had become confused over the time I 'd said I 'd pick him up , although it was always the same , and Miss Prescott thought he was a little agitated and so brought him round herself . |
| 22 | I 'd said I wanted him back , but I was frightened and I felt I could n't face telling the social workers . |
| 23 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 24 | Whereas if I 'd said I was coming with Kevin it would n't have been . |
| 25 | I would if I 'd said I was going to sleep , stay with Hannah |
| 26 | On my side , I burned with less envy of Charlie than I 'd imagined I would . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , nothing like I 'd imagined I 'd feel in this situation . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 29 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 30 | ‘ You either sink or swim , ’ she said , ‘ and I 'd decided I was going to swim . ’ |