Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 2 | Or suppose I wished to challenge what A said . |
| 3 | Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen . |
| 4 | I suddenly understood , or thought I understood it all . |
| 5 | Erm , but I wanted some cash , so what I did in the end was walked round Asda remembered it , or thought I remembered it , came back out put the erm card back in and the terminal came up erm it 's ok . |
| 6 | ‘ Back in nineteen forty-four when Claudia was working on her thesis , I understood intellectually ’ — he says the word with a certain fastidiousness — ‘ what she was saying about the Masai , but as a man who knew the country and the natives , or thought I did , I could n't really accept it . |
| 7 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 8 | ‘ One morning they woke me up , told me to wash my face , and led me blindfolded into a room with a TV camera . |
| 9 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 10 | went out of the house to go to , shut the door and realized I 'd left my cars in the house . |
| 11 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 12 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 13 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 14 | Aunt Nessy had been upstairs , but hearing voices she came down , and seeing me ran towards me , as lightly and softly as a little bouncing ball , her eyes full of love and welcome . |
| 15 | During my visit to Proctor and Gamble I expected to spend most of my time listening to smart women complain about having their key strokes counted . |
| 16 | Anyway they questionedme and realised I had nothing to do with it and I got a letter saying I was completely innocent and apologising profusely |
| 17 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 20 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 21 | Heaving and struggling I managed to close the door , but it kept opening again , weakened by its storm-fractured clasp . |
| 22 | It ai n't fair , bein' kind to me and gettin' me obligated . |
| 23 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 24 | How many people go back home and say I had an affair ? |
| 25 | I got Jake to lie , and say I went away on holiday earlier than I did . ’ |
| 26 | And erm and say I went shopping and I I saw that and I liked it and I thought oh I 'll go in and ask how much it is , he said give us twenty five quid for it , you can have the lot . |
| 27 | And hell , I thought ; I had been tired ; I was tired still , and I would phone that evening — definitely — and say I 'd fallen asleep , and nobody would be too bothered , and after all a chap could only cope with so much sorrow-saying in one day … of course I 'd phone . |
| 28 | ‘ But at the end of the day , I can look at myself in the mirror and say I gave 100 per cent . |
| 29 | If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ? |
| 30 | right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid |