Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't think I got any money . |
2 | Or do you think I dropped deadly nightshade into the stuffings ? ’ |
3 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
4 | I do n't think I had any blood on my hands , for I had held her ankles just below the silver bracelets . |
5 | I do n't think I had any celery , I had , I had put in whatever I had in the house and sort of various herbs and spices and things . |
6 | ‘ Actually , I did n't think I made much impression on her . |
7 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
8 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
9 | Then also , he also gave me I mean I got hundred percent mortgage which you are allowed on , I mean the law says er t the chance to buy so therefore you do n't have to have a deposit . |
10 | But I 'm not sure that 's right I just , I mean I spent three years |
11 | I mean I thought that migration was the er , would be the cure of all ills , in that , you know , we 've got wage differentials here in this , in this hypothetical economy . |
12 | I mean I I really could of a I mean I hired that ladder just to do about six foot either side . |
13 | I mean I had that go with her . |
14 | Here all up here , here in my arms I mean I had seven week physiotherapy on this arm , it 's |
15 | As it was , I mean I found another chocolate gateau under those Christmas tree cakes . |
16 | No , no messing , I mean I did that ages ago and I , i , it just arrived ! |
17 | I 'd love eating I had roast parsnips , brussel sprouts , carrots , and boiled and baked alaska , and it was really nice . |
18 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
19 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
20 | But the fact is , at that point , I did n't even know I had any information to feed anybody . |
21 | No I did n't know I had these things . |
22 | Do n't know I won third prize on the draw and I |
23 | But I say I went all day without nothing to eat bloody starved . |
24 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
25 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
26 | 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 |
27 | 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 ? |
28 | Since then I I 've like say I missed ten Fridays yeah ? |
29 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
30 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |