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 .
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