Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So at quarter past eight I said right I said go to bed said gon na turn that light out . |
| 2 | And I was asked about my interests , and naturally I began to talk about politics . |
| 3 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 4 | I did n't want to disturb the family at a moment like this so I came to check in person . |
| 5 | So I had to wait in suspense . |
| 6 | Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction . |
| 7 | I did n't know how long I 'd wasted looking for the compass or how long I 'd knelt in capitulation . |
| 8 | OK I refused to go to Gran 's funeral last year , stayed at home and listened to the Top Forty top volume while I shouted out Nora 's big speech from The Doll 's House — ‘ I was simply your little songbird , your doll … ’ |
| 9 | You knew perfectly well I had to stay within reach of the hospital over the weekend . |
| 10 | he passed his eleven plus as it was then and er he went to a school called Regent Street Grammar school in Plymouth and when we moved in here I had to go to Holly House , I think they call it |
| 11 | Then I had to go to hospital for a while . |
| 12 | Well I 'm supposed to have Wednesday mornings that was the arrangement , Wednesday then I had to go into hospital |
| 13 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
| 14 | But then I got promoted at work and suddenly I had a salary to borrow against . |
| 15 | Then I started dabbling in cocaine . |
| 16 | But then I started getting into trouble in approved school — running away , things like that , ending up in Brighton and Margate and being arrested for being an absconder from council care . |
| 17 | Sometimes I went trolling for lythe with rubber eels , or fly fishing for saithe and mackerel in the clear water around the rocks . |