Example sentences of "[coord] i [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Chief Inspector of Accidents it was within my domain to agree or reject the proposal , so Geoffrey Holton telephoned me at my home that Sunday morning and I immediately agreed to the UK being responsible for the investigation . |
| 2 | there must be a reason you know , they , they went well so I 've got sixty of them , they take them with me tonight and they said would there be any cakes available for Saturday and I , I think and I nearly said to erm , well last year you reckon you could n't sell cakes , but anyway I helped her |
| 3 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 4 | ‘ I had them on one night at the South Bank Poly and I just thought to myself , ‘ I ca n't be bothered with this , I really ca n't ’ . |
| 5 | So I got very , very depressed about it all and I just said to the officers , ‘ Put me in my cell and leave me alone . |
| 6 | ‘ I grew up when that kind of modernism was running rampant — it still is — when to be a respectable composer meant that you had to acquire a defiantly difficult style and I just said to myself , ‘ surely there 's another way to do this ? ’ |
| 7 | And I just said to her , ‘ Fine — because do n't forget who paid for the reception ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Right , and I just said to her , we will know the outcome of it wo n't we ? |
| 9 | I want at least five and I just wanted to erm establish that with one or two other people who er presently attend the tourism meetings are invited as required , rather than to every meeting . |
| 10 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
| 11 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 12 | They have no , they have no personal , erm , relationship with me er , I 'll give you the example of one of our , erm er , er er erm , er most recent directors who 's , who 's just joined the board , Mr Ruben , who 's the head of Colgate Palmo Palmolive , and I just described to him to you how we , erm how we , er er er er er selected him . |
| 13 | And I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away than Fenn Lane . |
| 14 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 15 | With the swimming cap and goggles on , I could hardly recognize myself , certainly not from a distance , and I also intended to be under water for most of the time . |
| 16 | Well I have n't suggested a a figure , I made reference and I also referred to the fact that when you then discounted completions , identified sites , and existing measurements , you would be approximately eight hundred and fifty dwellings short . |
| 17 | I 'm really sorry David and I both had to be away . |
| 18 | Ken and I both went to music lessons and the first interest I ever had in music was the teacher at the school . |
| 19 | Adèle was hoping Mr Rochester would call her down to meet the guests , but in the end she was so tired with all the excitement that she and I both went to bed early . |
| 20 | We kissed goodnight , and I again apologised to her for the fright she had . |
| 21 | Yeah , yeah that 's right , but I mean just go and have a look , and I actually said to her well you 'd be better with somebody else , you know , not going in there on your own |
| 22 | And I actually spoke to Jenny about it |
| 23 | ‘ On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should . |
| 24 | On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should |
| 25 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 26 | and then previously I worked at neighbourhood office , and I only came to when it had be d been declared a clearance area , |
| 27 | And I only said to Joe yesterday |
| 28 | Glenys and I recently went to Wembley for Nelson Mandela 's freedom celebration . |
| 29 | Christopher and I then returned to the fringes of power , having for a time been drawn perilously close to the centre . ’ |
| 30 | So I did my O levels and my A levels and I then went to the London Hospital , which is in Whitechapel , from the age of eighteen until I was twenty three . |