Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If I got on me high horse every time somebody hinted that I was n't like Betty Grable , I would have ridden to hell long before this . ’ |
2 | I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist . |
3 | I bumped into him four weeks later and he said , ‘ Oi , you made it all up ’ and I swallowed something sharp and jagged , shrivelled like a salted snail and said , ‘ Yeah I did ’ . |
4 | ‘ Are you seriously telling me that you thought I proposed to you this morning ? |
5 | I 'd just make the simple point that a sudden twelve point five percent reduction , I referred to it this morning , er in in building , is not progressively and long term , it 's a sudden change . |
6 | Erm , because of the Nathan reports , I mentioned to you last year , we 're going to have to raise more money than we thought sometime ago . |
7 | I suffered with her that evening , right through every moment , and when I went to bed at around midnight I could still hear her crying into her pillow — not a sound that sends a mother peacefully to sleep . |
8 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
9 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
10 | I barked at him this morning and he barked back . |
11 | ‘ I 'm sorry I yelled at you last night , Dad , ’ she said . |
12 | I dreamed of you last night . ’ |
13 | I mean I looked through it this time . |
14 | If I looked at them all night long , I should n't grow tired of the sight . ’ |
15 | He says slight seconds , well I looked at them last night and there 's , I ca n't see nowt wrong with them . |
16 | Well , well she was , she was standing outside , I mean I looked at her this morning and I 've loo so I 've sort of looked at her , and I was going to speak to her and then this fella walked up and I thought , I , I mean I could n't gauge whether , and I mean my , I , I was thinking what I was going to say anyway , I was going to say er you know sa is it Paula so you perhaps do n't remember me but I , I , and then I was going to say I 'm Adrian , Adrian |
17 | thought erm that the tissue was growing but then I looked at it last night and it was a bit |
18 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
19 | I thought about it all night , I could n't sleep , it was so stuffy , and my tummy 's all wrong ( he tries his best to cook , but it 's hopeless ) . |
20 | I thought about it last night and I was laying awake all last night thinking about it |
21 | I dreamt of it last night . ’ |
22 | ‘ I spoke to him this morning . ’ |
23 | I spoke to him last night as well . |
24 | ‘ I spoke to him last month and he was laughing about it . ’ |
25 | So I said , well come on you 've got ta be reasonable with me so I spoke to him last week and he says , look you did n't have one last year so I 'll give you two . |
26 | I honestly do n't know , when I spoke to her this morning she said she has n't erm for a , for a few weeks now she has n't placed anybody |
27 | ‘ You 're cross because I was honest when I spoke to you that night . |
28 | I was wrong ( in the way I spoke to you last night ) . |
29 | I spoke with him this morning . ’ |
30 | I get up on my skates and dance to my left , in exactly the style I learned from him 25 years before . |