Example sentences of "i [vb past] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried getting him slimmer once as I thought it might help him to jump even better , but it did n't suit him . |
| 2 | and er I tried getting it off , anyway I thought I ca n't be bothered messing about with it |
| 3 | I tried reversing it to five-one-five . |
| 4 | I tried ringing them and I did n't get any answer on the phone |
| 5 | I tried phoning him yesterday but there were no answer and then I thought oh bugger it , forget it . |
| 6 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 7 | I tried telling her she was wrong , which was silly really , because no-one ought to decide such things for anyone else … ’ |
| 8 | I tried calling you in Budapest on Friday and Saturday but could n't get a reply . |
| 9 | Same country accent : I tried practising it in my head , pretending I was a rosy-cheeked barmaid serving cider . |
| 10 | I tried doing it with my fingers but |
| 11 | I tried commanding him — as if I were an angel — but he only got nasty . |
| 12 | I found having it taken away worse than the strip search . |
| 13 | ‘ I mentioned meeting him , ’ he corrected her impatiently . |
| 14 | I decided , yesterday , yesterday I stopped fancying him , but I changed my mind again . |
| 15 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 16 | I really thought that was it , then I stopped taking them . ’ |
| 17 | No , I 've never taken them , I 've just , I stopped taking them . |
| 18 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 19 | Then I stopped seeing her . |
| 20 | And then , because I stopped looking out for her , I stopped seeing her altogether . |
| 21 | ‘ Just because I left him , ’ she said , ‘ it does n't mean I stopped loving him . |
| 22 | I wondered how long it would be before I stopped loving him . |
| 23 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 24 | I stopped , I stopped using it , I must admit . |
| 25 | It was only when I stopped hurting her that she got worried . |
| 26 | You would be very cross if I stopped giving it . ’ |
| 27 | And made them a f and they look for their fry every Saturday and I stopped doing it . |
| 28 | When I was told this , I recalled hearing it said , back in the 1930s , that these visits had been observed by a young writer or two who , out of rather callous curiosity , would follow Eliot at a discreet distance , and observe him to turn round , as he approached the door , in order to see whether anybody had been spying on him . |
| 29 | I imagined meeting you , talking to you , but nothing like this . |
| 30 | I hated having him as a bed-mate . |