Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I became more experienced I wanted to branch out and the more technical aspects of triathlon , particularly the cycling , interested me . |
| 2 | Val did a brilliant job getting everyone else to Le Bourget using public transport ; I went on the bike with no map and only a vague idea where Le Bourget was , and every Frenchman I asked just waved me straight on ( lies ! ) , but I got there somehow and we had a very enjoyable , if unscheduled , visit . |
| 3 | After I got back to work I realised just how many people do n't give blood in the Institute ( which is what prompted me to write this article ) . |
| 4 | The next fish I hooked eventually snapped me after taking most of my line , but I was not worried . |
| 5 | I must have fallen asleep , for I dreamed that a girl was kissing me open-mouthed , the touch of her tongue light as a butterfly , and her hand caressing , and I woke suddenly to find I was thoroughly roused . |
| 6 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 7 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
| 8 | Because er my mother was fair and she must have carried it or something and then I I 'd just started I think a week of two or three weeks and my sister got it and the boys never got it . |
| 9 | I 'd already decided I wanted to go into the Army and it would n't have been a good idea to have anything on my record about supporting some left-wing group . |
| 10 | I 'd always thought I 'd like to work in an old people 's home . |
| 11 | And er the chap that tended her was er a locum , he were only a young chap , and er he says , Oh oh I 'm sorry , he says , I 'd better get me old man to come , he said I do n't suppose I 'll ever see another of these in my career . |
| 12 | I 'd better get me timesheet out of |
| 13 | well I 'd only paid me first month you see twenty two thirty |
| 14 | I want … wanted it all or , in the end , I found I wanted nothing , although I 'd originally thought I could be satisfied with something . ’ |
| 15 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 16 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 17 | I heard enough to make me think it worth my while to talk it over . |
| 18 | I heard enough to learn I featured in the conversation . |
| 19 | I called merely to say I could n't meet up with you tomorrow . |
| 20 | The first time we made love , I started out believing I hated you , but when we … by the end I knew I did n't really , and that I loved you . |
| 21 | and while I started off thinking I might finish up better than I started |
| 22 | When I rang up to say I were coming I asked them did they want Easter eggs or did they want fa er a box of chocolates or bars of chocolate we |
| 23 | I struggled up to show I was n't wolf meat . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't hang about long , but I saw enough to convince me that all that rubbish about Melanie 's frigidity was pure invention on your part . ’ |
| 25 | I think about it a hell of a lot you know , not with morbid fascination but because everything that I went through gave me an inner strength and I am frightened to lose it . |
| 26 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 27 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 28 | I kept on saying I have done nothing wrong . |
| 29 | I bought in think I 'd get it |
| 30 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |