Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And I 'd gone off passion .
2 Went to bed and I 'd got to bed and I 'd been there I do n't know how long
3 I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession .
4 And I 've fallen in love with this part of the country .
5 As I have tried to tell you , she was the wife of an old friend and I 've kept in touch since she got divorced — ’
6 You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that .
7 And I 've got ta sort of sit down .
8 My mother had looked cheerful and I had gone to bed seeing her cheerful face .
9 Over the years Fred Workman and I had kept in touch and in a note with his 1973 Christmas card he had mentioned Edna 's rise to fame and fortune , and gave me her address .
10 Yet I knew there was something familiar about them , as if these ideas from far off generations had revived in me and I had come in contact with ancestral faces .
11 I was a member of the health service team supporting Elizabeth and Helen at the time of the move and I have stayed in touch with them since , as a friend and advocate .
12 I have caught fish ‘ on the drop ’ with leger tackle , and I have experimented with float tackle at different depths , but I have never found the slightest evidence of bream shoaling in different size layers in stillwaters .
13 But while Tony Lesser is once again listing the Treasury 's objections to the topics Jane and I have proposed for discussion papers , a picture suddenly comes into my mind , with the most painful vividness , of Summerchild dragging himself across the hard wet ground , on the morning of June 24th 1974 , to the locked gates of that yard behind the Admiralty .
14 ‘ In fact my girlfriend Claudia and I have talked about marriage and I do n't see why we should n't wed sometime although we have not set a date .
15 ‘ My girlfriend and I have talked about sex seriously , ’ says Steven , who is planning to go to college to study mechanics .
16 My discussions with the café owner have always been amiable and I have paid for car parking ( when asked ) and have gone about my business in an unobtrusive manner .
17 But I 've lied to Rainbow .
18 I 'd have thought an organisation like Amnesty would be in the forefront of anti-sexism , but I 've come across sexism before where I would expect an enlightened attitude ( eg Greenpeace )
19 She 'd wanted me to come to Lochgair and say sorry to him there , but I had begged for mercy , and — rather to my surprise — been granted it .
20 But I had forgotten about Nanny .
21 I was n't even going to mention it today , but I 'd forgotten about Family Day until Dad brought it up just now . ’
22 But I have planned to shopping
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