Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , as I was saying before Adam interrupted me see I fancy Adam , he 's really nice . |
| 2 | be a doctor ’ — She asked me had I thought it out ? |
| 3 | Says Eugene modestly , ‘ Kurt asked me did I want to go on , and I said ‘ Great ’ , but I shat myself . |
| 4 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 5 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 6 | For the parent , the same phrase means the inverse : I have not given birth to the monster which my upbringing and socialisation led me to believe I 'd had , but to a normal member of the human species as I now define it . |
| 7 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 8 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 9 | Then I picked up my things at the stationer 's and walked home , ignoring the distressing tugs of the magnetic field , which made me feel I 'd wasted my morning by not doing the thing I 'd set out to do . |
| 10 | You made me feel I had , but I have n't . |
| 11 | He really you know made me feel I say I were n't sat there like I was with that fella thinking well he do n't seem to know what he 's saying anyway . |
| 12 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 13 | Keeping a big horse is expensive ; I know , I 've got one , and when I worked out what he cost me to keep I got to £50 per week and stopped because it was too frightening . |
| 14 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 15 | as Cybil mentioned you know I mean if if we want to criticise your first ten words it comes a bit hard up to five thousand you know . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've had a sticker for my car made which says I Like My Windscreen Dirty , ’ said Griff . |
| 17 | ‘ I have held my hand time and again , and even when they drove me to act I have abated my askings to keep the balance true and save Wales from worse enmity . |
| 18 | When he told me to strip I refused , saying that I would change my clothes only if he left the room . |
| 19 | ‘ When I came I said I wanted to help Glamorgan to become winners and that is still my aim . ’ |
| 20 | I told him to ring I told him ring Apex up in case they were recruiting . |
| 21 | I mean maybe soon after you maybe I 'll say look well you know blah blah blah you got you know I like saying that I did n't like kind of bloke but not like she 's such a fucking bitch and all this . |
| 22 | I know , just that when your house needs a re-wiring got you worry I wished they never got rid off her new Christmas one , just think all the money we 've spent on |
| 23 | I dillied I dallied I dallied I dillied lost me way I do n't know where to roam . |
| 24 | Suddenly he said , ‘ When I arrived I said I wanted to hear the rest of your story . |
| 25 | Well I 'm just thinking it could be three years cos I 'm thinking what I borrowed what did I borrow , fifteen hundred ? |
| 26 | And when my periods began I thought I had piles . |
| 27 | Cos I 'm a bit worried we got ta get things sorted out so I rang I said I did n't to get onto you , she said no I know how they feel she said her granddad always do things like that . |
| 28 | That 's what made him spew I reckon then . |
| 29 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 30 | I went in her bedroom last night , switched the light on , went I thought I 'd seen lightning and I thought oh I could n't have seen lightning , anyway I goes to . |