Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You promised you 'd pay me . ’ |
| 2 | You promised you 'd hurt me , that you wanted everything . |
| 3 | You promised you 'd take me . ’ |
| 4 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 5 | ‘ I met thousands of people who pretended they could teach me how to do it . |
| 6 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 7 | ‘ Ruddock 's trouble was that he was always going on in the build-up to the fight about how he reckoned he used to knock me out in sparring when we were kids . |
| 8 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 9 | I thought no I thought I 'll reason I 've got a big box I thought two weeks , cracked it . |
| 10 | ‘ But it was a very warm connection and I believe she felt she could phone me any time she wished . |
| 11 | She reddened , said : ‘ I knew you would think I had taken too much responsibility on myself . ’ |
| 12 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I knew you 'd like me to ask them , ’ she said eventually , since there was nothing else for it . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew you 'd get me , ’ Midwinter said . |
| 15 | I knew you 'd ask me that . |
| 16 | ‘ You must think I was taking a lot for granted , sorting all this out before — well , before I even knew you 'd let me on the island , let alone still want me . ’ |
| 17 | I thought you would do I thought there was something you 'd be doing I wo n't be sure now I 'm gon na put that tax disc in |
| 18 | I thought you would help me , too . |
| 19 | I thought you might pay me for it . |
| 20 | I thought you might drive me to the station . ’ |
| 21 | I thought you might ask me about that some time , ’ he murmured . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought you might ask me to stay , ’ Tracey said hopefully , instantly dispelling her feeling of gratitude . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought you 'd want me to get out of your sight — and stay out . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I thought you 'd cheer me up ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It means , ’ she said coldly , ‘ that you asked me to stay with Anna because you thought you could seduce me . ’ |
| 26 | Even if I tried it on I thought she would stop me . |
| 27 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
| 28 | Soon Alison would know , the Carters would know , everyone would know , and once they knew they would cut me dead . |
| 29 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 30 | If my friends knew they 'd shun me and my boy-friend would leave me . |