Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I only went upstairs to get sort of washed and dressed , after the weekend , you have nobody around and er , oh eh , it started bleeding .
2 I just popped up to see Sergeant Joe , did n't I ?
3 I tried it , but it used to , I used to , I just did not like fish
4 All I knew by then was that I just did n't want change . ’
5 ‘ Idiotic of me , really , but I just did n't have time to ask . ’
6 Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've
7 Yeah , I , I could n't , I just did n't have time .
8 I always ended up making compromises .
9 Unlike my old man I did n't go much on pubs , the dogs or cribbage but I still went on supporting West Ham most Saturday afternoons .
10 I also had long haul flights in mind . ’
11 I also learned too to put thumb over the top , not underneath , because they can , they do
12 I then went on to use breastmilk storage bags to minimise confusion .
13 I did n't know whether to go for the oatmeal for second choice or whether to stick to the saxe , but I definitely did not want jet or donkey , that I did know .
14 Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this .
15 And I certainly did n't feel grown-up .
16 ‘ I did n't want the students to be ’ , she recalls , ‘ I did n't really want anybody to be , and I certainly did n't think students had any right to be .
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