Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ When that failed I stuffed my right hand down its throat to stop it biting and then smacked it twice between the eyes with my left . ’ |
2 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
3 | I tried I saw him one day on , I crept up in my and I took it out of the window and all I 've got is the . |
4 | I believed I owed him some debt . |
5 | ‘ Fraid I disgraced myself last night . |
6 | ‘ I was alone in this new search as I was alone when I discovered I loved my own sex . |
7 | so yesterday when I went I got myself another drape |
8 | Oh , I felt tempted to wander , to spend one day , one night in my old haunts or slip across the river to the stews and brothels of Southwark but Benjamin insisted I follow my own advice . |
9 | now I thought I knew what that word meant until I came to the assembly . |
10 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
11 | I thought I told you last week ! |
12 | I see , I thought I delivered you two cups |
13 | Er where did I do you last time ? |
14 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
15 | Did I tell you that story ? |
16 | Did I tell you that Mark 's . |
17 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dane , did I hurt your macho pride by not sticking around for more ? |
18 | Where did I get them other ones from then ? |
19 | Did I get it right mummy ? |
20 | L Where did I put my green skirt ? ( to which Ben ‘ replies ’ ) |
21 | But as he left I caught his hang-dog stare |
22 | She said I brought it last Tuesday |
23 | She said I have my good days and my bad days , said I had bad day yesterday not too bad . |
24 | Oh I had I had something this morning . |
25 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
26 | Not only had I to get his damn' book back but regain his ring . |
27 | No sooner had I entered my front door than there was a knock on it . |
28 | The next day we hired a Panda auto and nipped off for a game of golf , it had been rather warm and on returning Sonya suggested I remove my cerise tweeds and let my cornet Kascade down . |