Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 2 | But if you would n't tell me I had to find out the only way I could , ’ Travis explained , tightening his arms about her . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't tell me I 've found out your secret vice — dressing up in men 's clothing . |
| 4 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 5 | Whom I 've trusted in . |
| 6 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 7 | Students were everywhere , on bicycles , on foot , gowns blowing in the wind , most of them I suppose cramming in as much of their studies as they could before call-up . |
| 8 | You know I I I 've cancelled down before but you know in this like . |
| 9 | Yeah there 's there 's there 's a whole lot of others that were in me head that I I meant to write down before you came in . |
| 10 | I I like dressing up . |
| 11 | I I want to push off erm because I 've got a lot of work to do tonight . |
| 12 | I I did glance over yesterday er |
| 13 | Erm to sit down , it 's alright saying that I 've got Alf and I 've got Tracey there are times when I I need to sit down and jiggle stuff about , and look at something |
| 14 | Maybe he was just someone I 'd dreamed up . |
| 15 | I know that er the seminar which I attended sparked off quite a lot of lively er debate . |
| 16 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 17 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 18 | On the back of the packet was the phone number of Prior , Keen , Baldwin 's motorbike messenger service which I 'd jotted down while snooping in their postroom on Friday afternoon . |
| 19 | But if any of the women folks which I 've gone out with a a bowl of soup to him many a time . |
| 20 | Erm Other areas in which I 've lived in I lived in the in an area in Hull , where the whole of this inner city area was revitalized simply by giving things new front doors and new gutters and drainage and tidying up the small gardens that there were , and providing things such as railings . |
| 21 | Er is I 'd looked at the using their machine build which I 've built in , |
| 22 | ‘ They asked if they could have some pictures , which I 've sent out . ’ |
| 23 | For instance , he has a new ball , which I 've warmed up in my pockets , every third hole , and I know all his likes and dislikes . |
| 24 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 25 | We chased that letter in er March nineteen ninety three and er finally we wrote in July nineteen ninety three the letter which I 've copied round er . |
| 26 | The water is returned by a central heating pump via a small header pond which I wish to plant out as much as possible . |
| 27 | And when I go and have my erm , smear test which I keep putting off . |
| 28 | The next step was selection for the World Cup squad : ‘ Actually , I was lying in bed with ‘ flu on the Sunday morning of a squad session from which I had called off when Bill Hogg , the SRU secretary , telephoned to say that Iain Milne had been forced to withdraw . |
| 29 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 30 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |