Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I got a garden , I could occupy myself in the garden . |
| 2 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 3 | When my brother or I had a fever , my mother or my grandfather used to come here to find leaves or roots to cure it . |
| 4 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 5 | Or I said the money you do n't spend . |
| 6 | For instance , I bought it from John and John sold it to me , or I received/got a letter from John and John sent me a letter are equally ‘ natural ’ as far as the phraseology of English is concerned ; their ‘ acceptability ’ is , of course , determined by the context in which they occur . |
| 7 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 8 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 9 | And neither Simon nor I fancied a stranger moving in with us . |
| 10 | I must have knocked it or something and I 'd a couple of shots left and I ought to have shot the swine but I could n't , not while he was sitting there killing himself laughing . |
| 11 | And I 'd a breath of fresh air . |
| 12 | See , Mum and I looked a bit up in my book |
| 13 | Er , and I slided a wee bit . |
| 14 | Elizabeth left me and I searched every corner of the hotel — every dark doorway and staircase . |
| 15 | ‘ But I did stand in for one of your girls at Jenkinsons last week — and I sold the suit I showed . ’ |
| 16 | The offer of a glass of Calvados was politely refused and I accepted a large glass of red wine that really tasted good . |
| 17 | At that point , both Tom and I accepted the magnitude of the problem . |
| 18 | Then , my curiosity and the challenge took over and I accepted the job . ’ |
| 19 | I said , ‘ It 's a th-th-th- ’ and I whipped the 3-iron out of the bag . |
| 20 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 21 | I envied them their sexual freedom and their self-assured dignity , and I despised the British vice squads that ran them in and were not above enjoying their charms for a consideration . |
| 22 | I did and I passed the exam ( which seemed very important at the time , although now I am not so sure ) . |
| 23 | Yes , it was nice to be warned , and I passed the rope round the animal 's body in front of the udder and pulled it tight In a slip knot . |
| 24 | To believe them , Karen and I shanghaied the shrinking Dennis on to a punt by some underhand ruse worthy of a ‘ once-aboard-the-lugger-and-the-maid-is-mine ’ melodrama . |
| 25 | Into this I placed little ‘ oily ’ pools where cancer cells were setting up their colonies and I imagined the cells themselves as amoeba or tadpole like creatures , smooth , slippery and with large eyes . |
| 26 | Of course I could n't see either of them , but I could hear them , and I imagined the rifleman peering into the ditch . |
| 27 | Reluctantly , he agreed the exchange had taken place , and I rushed the story to London . |
| 28 | Instinctively , my hand came off the bat and I knocked the ball away . |
| 29 | The examiners finished the bottle and I got a distinction . ’ |
| 30 | Max took an instant dislike to her and from then on , when she tried to speak , he would howl like a wolf and I got a dreadful fit of the giggles ! |