Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked why he could n't just plead guilty . |
| 2 | That when I got here they would n't be missing anymore . |
| 3 | I was some way behind , it was misty , and when I got there I could n't see him . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew something was wrong — when I got there he would n't look at me . |
| 5 | Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year . |
| 6 | This was supposed to be a ‘ sensitive ’ job and if I came out I would automatically be adjudged a danger to the patients and given the elbow . |
| 7 | If I pulled out he would probably do me over for being a chicken , but if I competed and beat him ( unlikely but not impossible ) … well , I might as well have booked my hospital bed then and there . |
| 8 | I saw the look the malai doctors gave each other and I knew then he would never see again . |
| 9 | When I looked back I could no longer see the clearing . |
| 10 | As I looked down I could n't believe I was being asked to attempt it . |
| 11 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 12 | For a start , right , erm all her clothes then right and I mean loads of them are ones they 're really horrible like but she just hangs them here , I thought well you ca n't wear them , you know , all horrible , you do n't wear them fold them , put them away |
| 13 | because But then I thought then I thought well I 'll Here 's Rachel do you want to and then like it 's be like Oh I 'm spoiling it for him . |
| 14 | I would have picked number one you see and erm of course there was the er I knew the name Barbara erm and knew she 'd got a shop called Hitched in Northampton er er anyway when I was in the library I thought well I 'll just see if Hitched is in the telephone book you see , and it was . |
| 15 | She said the Samaritans she said Joy I were gon na commit suicide , and she said I thought well I 'll just talk to the Samaritans and she said that 's where I were , I said you wo n't commit suicide will you ? |
| 16 | I thought well I 'll just |
| 17 | I mean The Sun is absolutely I mean I did tr have a go at reading the first one and I thought well I ca n't read this trash any longer , think I read two pages . |
| 18 | and then I thought well I ca n't cos , I 've got er calculator in this bag and I have n't got it on me you see . |
| 19 | And er I thought well I wo n't really , and I probably did n't like losing anyway you know I I I was never a good loser I do n't think , and I thought no I sha n't get many votes and I 'll look silly I 'm not putting in for it . |
| 20 | I thought well I would n't mind |
| 21 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 22 | Then at about 4:58 I thought maybe I 'll just listen to the match report , there may have been a fight back … & what ya know … 3–3 ! ! |
| 23 | ‘ When you were n't here at nine , I thought maybe you would n't be coming in again , ’ Jimmy remarked , and , before she could ask him what he meant by that , ‘ I like your hair that way , Leith , ’ he opined . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , you know , I thought perhaps I 'd just check through things and make sure . ’ |
| 25 | I it did I mean I thought afterwards I should n't have said that to er John because he would be thinking , Oh here 's negative Nelly coming along . |
| 26 | I went , and then I went well he ca n't have looked around for us too well because we were walking by the side of the road . |
| 27 | I 've got nearly over five hundred quid , then the petrol and then food where you could n't get food donated , and new tyres for the bike before I went so you could only get on the road . |
| 28 | something so , anyway I went there I ca n't remember all the details but |
| 29 | If I went there I should n't know which bit to aim for . |
| 30 | ‘ If I did n't we would n't be here , ’ Newman told him . |