Example sentences of "[vb base] i [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean I just thought of you and there you were ? ’ |
| 2 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 3 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 4 | I mean I never went through it much , but this last fortnight |
| 5 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 6 | Faith , that 's the first lie I ever heard from you ! ’ |
| 7 | You know I just thought of something really stupid |
| 8 | You know I never thought of asking you if you want that . |
| 9 | Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that . |
| 10 | ‘ My father was a flight sergeant caterer and I suppose I just followed in his footsteps . |
| 11 | Elizabeth 's friend Maud must have said something of this sort , for I find I once wrote to her : ‘ Maud was right , I think . |
| 12 | I guess I just wanted to be seen at that point . |
| 13 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 14 | Did n't get u , dismount I just sat on the saddle like with my foot on the floor wandering what they was up to . |
| 15 | Billy was the most boastful little sod I ever met in my life . |
| 16 | I think I even dreamed about her at night . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I just proposed to you in front of most of Great Britain . ’ |
| 18 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 19 | ‘ In fact , I 'm so excited about everything , I think I only slept for a couple of hours . ’ |
| 20 | I never broke my oath — I swear I never turned against you ! ’ |
| 21 | Richard has described this period as ‘ pure hell ’ and ‘ the hardest work I ever did in my life ’ . |
| 22 | I loved you , I needed you , and blinded by my love and need I never looked at you closely enough . |
| 23 | See I just went like that , looking up : ‘ Come on , its bed time . |