Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 and I tried all weekend trying to get only there from five to seven , and I got him after five o'clock on Tuesday
2 The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time .
3 and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything .
4 One year new chain and I had it in that little on the tree ?
5 I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely .
6 I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years .
7 And I arranged it on that day at the time .
8 And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter .
9 Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion .
10 Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time .
11 And I told them about this job I 'd done here .
12 You know , and I told you about that I 'm having my er done .
13 K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour .
14 And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case .
15 And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman .
16 she looks really weird without them on and I saw her like this
17 And I saw it before that , about , yeah about eight as well .
18 My sister and I put him to good use .
19 Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt .
20 I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford
21 But then I got the ES295 and I used it through most of the Sun sessions .
22 So one day , I got a newspaper , I rolled it up and I walloped her like mad .
23 His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look .
24 I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions .
25 I did my best to shepherd the animal out of the room but he did n't seem to know the meaning of obedience and I chased him in vain .
26 The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line .
27 You assumed I would know to pick it up to like that and I grabbed it like that .
28 so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah
29 Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north .
30 But I left it at that .
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